REPORTED BY MR. HITCHCOCK.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, April 29, 1914. Resolved, That there be printed as a Senate document the message from the President of the United States, dated April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State in relation to the negotiation and application of certain treaties on the subject of an interoceanic canal; the message of the President of the United States, dated November sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, with accompanying papers, included in House Document Numbered Eight, parts one and two, Fifty-eighth Congress, first session; the message of the President of the United States, dated December eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, with accompanying papers, included in Senate Document Numbered Fifty-one, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session; and certain letters from Jose Vicente Concha, the Colombian minister, and other papers, included in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eleven, Fiftyseventh Congress, first session; together with correspondence relating to said protocol, and that one thousand additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. Attest:

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JAMES M. BAKER, Secretary.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

Bryan, William J., Secretary of State, letter to the President, April 23, 1914...

Choate, Joseph H., American ambassador to Great Britain:

Telegram to Mr. Hay, January 11, 1901..

Letter to Mr. Hay, January 12, 1901.

Letter to Lord Lansdowne, January 4, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, February 19, 1901..

Extracts from private letter to Mr. Hay, June 24, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, August 16, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, August 20, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 3, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, September 20, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 21, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 25, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, September 27, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, September 27, 1901..

Telegram to Mr. Hay, October 2, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, October 2, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, October 9, 1901.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, October 9, 1901..

Hay, John, Secretary of State:

Letter to Mr. White, December 7, 1898.

Letter to Mr. Choate, December 22, 1900..

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, December 22, 1900.

Telegram to Mr. Choate, December 29, 1900.

Letter to Mr. Choate, January 25, 1901..

Telegram to Mr. Choate, February 16, 1901.

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Extract from private letter to Mr. Choate, April 27, 1901.

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Telegram to Mr. Choate, August 22, 1901.

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Extracts from private letter to Mr. Choate, September 2, 1901.

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Extracts from private letter to Lord Pauncefote, September 2, 1901.

Letter, explanatory of provisions of second treaty, addressed to Hon. S. M.

Cullom, chairman Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, December

12, 1901...

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Letter of Mr. Lowther, August 3, 1901..

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, December 16, 1901..

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, February 20, 1902.

Hay-Pauncefote treaty (November 18, 1901):

Original draft submitted to Lord Lansdowne...

Amendments to Mr. Hay's original draft proposed by Lord Lansdowne....

History of amendments proposed and considered which resulted in sec-

ond treaty....

Lansdowne, the Marquis of:

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, February 22, 1901.....

Memorandum transmitted to Mr. Lowther, August 3, 1901..

Amendments to Mr. Hay's draft of second treaty proposed by

Letter to Mr. Lowther, September 12, 1901..

Letter to Lord Pauncefote, October 23, 1901.

Papers transmitted in response to Senate resolution 339, April 23, 1914, list of...

Pauncefote, Lord, British ambassador to the United States:

Letter to Mr. Hay, December 26, 1900...

Letter of Lord Lansdowne, April 25, 1901..

Letter to Lord Lansdowne, November 18, 1901.

Letter to Lord Lansdowne, November 19, 1901.

Telegram to Lord Lansdowne, December 16, 1901.

Letter to Mr. Hay, February 18, 1902...

Spectator, London, editorial in, December 10, 1898.

White, Henry, chargé d'affaires, American Embassy, London:

Telegram to Mr. Hay, December 21, 1898.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, December 22, 1898.

Letter to Mr. Hay, December 22, 1898.

Telegram to Mr. Hay, October 23, 1901.

Extracts from personal letter to Mr. Hay, October 26, 1901.

Wilson, Woodrow, President of the United States, transmitting correspondence,

April 24, 1914.....

PART II.

Bacon, Robert, Secretary of State, letter to Mr. Bryce, February 20, 1909....

Bryce, James, British ambassador to the United States:

Letter to Mr. Root, January 8, 1909..

Memorandum to Mr. Root, February 3, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Bacon, February 24, 1909.

Reid, Whitelaw, American ambassador to Great Britain:

Telegram to Mr. Root, January 11, 1909.

Telegram to Mr. Root, January 15, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Root, January 25, 1909.

Memorandum to Sir Edward Grey, January 20, 1909.

Root, Elihu, Secretary of State:

Letter to Mr. Bryce, January 8, 1909...

Letter to Mr. Reid, January 9, 1909..

Letter to the British ambassador, January 16, 1909.

Telegram to Mr. Reid, January 16, 1909..

PART III.

Bryce, James, British ambassador, Washington, letter to Mr. Knox, February

27, 1913...

Grey, Sir Edward, secretary of state for foreign affairs, Great Britain, letter to

Mr. Bryce, November 14, 1912.

Innes, A. Mitchell, British chargé d'affaires, Washington:

Letter to Mr. Knox, July 8, 1912.

Letter to Mr. Knox, August 27, 1912.

Knox, P. C., Secretary of State, letter to Chargé d'Affaires Laughlin, London,

January 17, 1913..

Panama Canal dues, interrogations in the House of Commons (October 11, 1912)

concerning.

Phillips, William, American embassy, London, letter to Mr. Knox, October

11, 1912.

Taft, William H., President of the United States, proclamation (Panama Canal
toll rates), November 13, 1912....

Wilson, Huntington, Acting Secretary of State, letter to Mr. Innes, August 30,

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PART IV-a.

Adee, A. A., Acting Secretary of State:

Telegram to Mr. Northcott, October 4, 1909..

Telegram to Mr. Northcott, October 23, 1909.

Arosemena, C. C., Panama minister, telegram to Mr. Root, January 31, 1909...

Bacon, Robert, Acting Secretary of State:

Letter to Mr. Cortes, April 9, 1908.

Telegram to Mr. Dawson, February 9, 1909.

Telegram to Mr. Dawson, February 26, 1909.

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Telegram to Mr. Root, July 14, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Northcott, October 2, 1909...

Letter to Mr. Northcott, December 20, 1909..

Barrett, John, minister to Colombia:

Letter to Mr. Root, April 7, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, May 23, 1906.

Telegram to Mr. Root, June 12, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, June 13, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, June 13, 1906.

Letter to Mr. Root, June 13, 1906.

Bryan, William Jennings, Secretary of State, letter to President, May 6, 1914..

Calderon, Carlos, minister for foreign affairs, Colombia:

Cobo, Vasquez, minister for foreign affairs, Colombia, confidential memorandum

submitted to Mr. Root and Mr. Barrett, September 20, 1906..

Colombia and Panama, protocol transmitted by President Taft. August 17, 1907.

Cortes-Arango protocol, August 17, 1907..

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Cortes, Enrico, Colombian minister:

Confidential memorandum to Mr. Root, November 8, 1906..

Memorandum submitted to Mr. Root, January 3, 1907.

Letter to Mr. Buchanan, March 4, 1907..

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Memorandum relating to proposed treaty with Colombia, March 4, 1907..

Letter to Mr. Root, December 28, 1907.

Memorandum to Mr. Root, comparing Columbian protocol with protocol of

Cromwell, William Nelson, counsel New Panama Canal Co., letter to the Presi-

Hibben, Paxton, chargé d'affaires American Legation, Bogota:

Hibben, Paxton, chargé d'affaires American Legation, Bogota-Continued.

Letter to Mr. Knox (edited), May 13, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Knox, May 27, 1909.

Knox, P. C., Secretary of State:

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Telegram to Mr. Dawson, March 15, 1909.

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Letter to Mr. Dawson, April 19, 1909.

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Loomis, Francis, Acting Secretary of State, letter to Mr. Russell, January 9,

1905..

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Palau, Dr. Ignacio, interview in Correo Nacional.

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Papers transmitted in response to Senate resolution 346 (tripartite treaties),

list of.

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Summary of proposals to Mr. Barrett, May 23, 1906.

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Informal memorandum presented to Mr. Barrett, June 12, 1906.

Interview with Mr. Barrett and Mr. Cobo, Cartagena, Colombia, September
24, 1906..

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Letter to Mr. Obaldia, April 24, 1907.

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Letter to Mr. Cortes, August 26, 1907.

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Letter to Mr. Cortes, transmitting draft of treaty submitted by chargé

d'affaires of Panama for agreement between Panama and Colombia,

December 17, 1907.

Letter to London & County Banking Co. (Ltd.), March 17, 1908.

Draft of treaty, United States-Colombia, December 30, 1908.

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Russell, William W., United States minister to Colombia:

Letter to Mr. Hay, December 20, 1904..

Letter to Mr. Hay, January 13, 1905..

Telegram to Mr. Hay, May 8, 1905..

Squiers, C. T., minister to Panama:

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Telegram to Mr. Root, January 30, 1909.

Letter to Mr. Knox, June 17, 1909..

Taft-Arango protocol, August 17, 1907.

Taft, William H., President of the United States:

Letter to Mr. Wilson, transmitting protocols between United States and
Colombia, and between Colombia and Panama, August 17, 1907........
Letter to Mr. Root, March 11, 1908.

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