Mr. PAVEY. Nor communicated with each other at all. laid stress upon that for this purpose: The whole purpose of the record so far is to try to create and fasten upon the United States a responsibility in regard to the revolution of Panama, based upon the activities of Mr. Cromwell prior to and about that time. Now, the revolution of Panama happened, by reason of the circumstances which I have related, to be a separate and distinct affair during that period from September 22 to November 18, when the treaty was signed here in Washington; and no investigation will ever bring results that are accurate and true unless the errors in the record in that respect are corrected.

My object in asking for this hearing was particularly to make this statement and then to ask that there be printed in the record a statement by Mr. Bunau-Varilla on that subject. I have a typewritten copy of the statement here, which was submitted to the committee last spring under circumstances which I will relate, and that has been revised and printed, so that any typographical errors are pretty well eliminated. The origin of that statement was this: I think about the middle of last March Mr. Bunau-Varilla received copies of these hearings in Paris. He at once saw the many fallacies that existed in the facts and conclusions as well, based upon this erroneous conception in regard to the responsibility of Mr. Cromwell for things for which he was not responsible, and he cabled to me to ascertain whether the committee would receive a statement from him. I communicated with your then chairman, Mr. Sulzer, and also saw him in New York, as my letter passed him on the way. Mr. Sulzer said to me he would like very much to have Mr. Bunau-Varilla come over here as a witness, and requested me to use my good offices to bring that about. I did not deem it a matter that required cabling, and took my time about it, perhaps, and wrote a long letter of explanation in accordance with the suggestions of Mr. Sulzer to arrange to get him to come over here as a witness.

As Mr. Bunau-Varilla did not hear from me in response to his cable, and having some anxiety lest the Congress might be going to adjourn or the committee terminate its hearings, he prepared a statement and sent it direct to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to be given to the committee, as I understand it was, and also sent me a copy, with the request I transmit it direct to Mr. Sulzer, which I did, and also to arrange with Mr. Sulzer to have it made a part of the record. As this statement arrived about the same time that my letter went over there asking him to appear as a witness, of course Mr. Sulzer took no action in regard to the statement, because he still clung to the idea that I could arrange to get Mr. Bunau-Varilla over here as a witness; and in accordance with my promise to Mr. Sulzer I made the best effort possible to bring about that result. I continued those efforts until it was approaching the time of adjournment in August, when Mr. Sulzer wrote me that there would not be a report made before the adjournment, and perhaps the arrangement could be made for this winter. When I was in Paris in September I went over the subject very thoroughly with Mr. Bunau-Varilla, and in some ways he was very anxious to come before the committee, but circumstances of a very serious domestic character-I mean illness in his family-and his very great preoccupation in other business matters that he has been working out, made it most inconvenient for him to try to make

the trip at any time, and for that reason we have been unable to get him to come over here.

When I saw it was too late to think of having him come over, I decided to take up again the question of having this printed as a part of the record. The value of the document lies in the fact that it points out a number of very important errors in the record which to my mind are logically due to this erroneous conception in the minds of the men who made up that report as to the sole activity of Mr. Cromwell in the matter, and to the false idea they have that Mr. Bunau-Varilla was acting as a part of his organization, when as a matter of fact it was an independent activity, and no responsibility can attach to the revolution of Panama, as it was finally planned and executed, by reason of anything which Mr. Cromwell did, with the bare exception that he was, perhaps we will say, responsible for Dr. Amador being in New York in September. Now, with that statement I am perfectly willing to go into any greater details, but I promised to be brief, and that covers the principal purpose of my visit here.

Mr. KENDALL. Is this statement substantially the same statement Mr. Bunau-Varilla sent to various members of the committee last summer?

Mr. PAVEY. It is the same statement. I would like to make this suggestion, that there is just one error I have discovered in that copy in going over it, although it is corrected subsequently, but on page 65 the words "October, 1903," should be "November, 1903," although, as I say, it is really corrected at the bottom of the page. The CHAIRMAN. You ask now, Mr. Pavey, to be allowed to file this as a part of your statement?

Mr. PAVEY. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. The printed statement will be included in the record.

STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF HISTORICAL TRUTH.

[By Philippe Bunau-Varilla, former chief engineer of the Panama Canal Co. (1885-86); former minister plenipotentiary of Panama to the United States (1903-4); officer of the Legion of Honor, etc. For the information of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. (Rainey resolution.)} PARIS, March 29, 1912.

The Hon. CHAMP CLARK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

SIR: The hearings before the Committee of Foreign Affairs on the Rainey resolution have brought forward a so-called Story of Panama, which has been printed as a congressional document and distributed.

This "Story," outside of various imaginary and misleading facts enunciated by its author, is mainly based on the assertions of a plea written in 1907 in order to try, without success, to obtain from a court of arbitration a high fee of $800,000 for services said to have been rendered to the New Panama Canal Co., and which said company denied. This plea is a tissue of erroneous and misleading assertions. The definition of its character is sufficiently given by him who wrote it when he says in it that the remuneration he asks is in part for having been "in a position to influence a considerable number of public men in political life" through the relations at the same time "intimate and susceptible of being used to advantage" in which his firm pretends to have been placed with men possessing influence and power.'

In this plea the House of Representatives is described as made powerless to vote a law which its majority enthusiastically supports and desires to pass. In this plea the actions of statesmen of the first rank, such as Secretary Hay and Senator Hanna, are described as those of passive mechanisms commanded by a subtle and exterior mind.

List of corrections submitted by Colonel Philippe Bunau-Varilla with the request that the corresponding changes be made in the Library of Congress copies of his work. The corrections were submitted in the form of pen-and-ink numbers placed at the appropriate pages of a copy of his work.

STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF HISTORICAL TRUTH

made by

Philippe Bunau-Varilla

For the information of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. (Rainey Resolution.)

The references which Colonel Bunau-Varilla wished to change are to the Congressional Document The Story of Panama: Hearings on the Rainey Resolution before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, 1912. There was a second edition of this work in 1913, with altered pagination. It is the wish of Colonel Bunau-Varilla, therefore, to refer the readers of his Statement to the proper pages of the later edition.

In the list of corrections given below, the first column to the left gives the pages in Colonel Bunau-Varilla's Statement; the second column gives the pages to which he referred in the first edition of The Story of Panama; and the third column gives the proper pages in the later edition of The Story of Panama.