Investigation of Panama Canal Matters: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Senate Resolution Adopted January 9, 1906, Providing for an Investigation of Matters Relating to the Panama Canal, Etc, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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Page 1953
... connection with the con- struction of a dam at Gamboa rather than at Gatun . While for certain purposes and under certain conditions earthen dams of large dimensions carefully formed are permissible , in this case it is not believed ...
... connection with the con- struction of a dam at Gamboa rather than at Gatun . While for certain purposes and under certain conditions earthen dams of large dimensions carefully formed are permissible , in this case it is not believed ...
Page 2003
... connection with the Panama Railroad before you were made a Commissioner ? Mr. WALLACE . None , except that they tried to appoint me general superintendent of it , and I declined . Senator MORGAN . You declined ? Mr. WALLACE . Yes ...
... connection with the Panama Railroad before you were made a Commissioner ? Mr. WALLACE . None , except that they tried to appoint me general superintendent of it , and I declined . Senator MORGAN . You declined ? Mr. WALLACE . Yes ...
Page 2009
... connection with the organization of the new Commission , which is a matter of record , which practically placed the power in the hands of an executive committee of three . That committee was composed of Mr. Shonts and Judge Magoon and ...
... connection with the organization of the new Commission , which is a matter of record , which practically placed the power in the hands of an executive committee of three . That committee was composed of Mr. Shonts and Judge Magoon and ...
Page 2011
... connection with it . Senator TALIAFERRO . He never spent his time there ? Mr. WALLACE . No , sir . Senator MORGAN . I do not wish Mr. Wallace to bring up any matter at all that would have a tendency to involve him in any personal con ...
... connection with it . Senator TALIAFERRO . He never spent his time there ? Mr. WALLACE . No , sir . Senator MORGAN . I do not wish Mr. Wallace to bring up any matter at all that would have a tendency to involve him in any personal con ...
Page 2035
... connection with the inquiry of Senator Kittredge , you can not get any more vessels through that larger water- way than you can get through your narrow locks or your narrow cut through Culebra ? Colonel ERNST . They all have to go ...
... connection with the inquiry of Senator Kittredge , you can not get any more vessels through that larger water- way than you can get through your narrow locks or your narrow cut through Culebra ? Colonel ERNST . They all have to go ...
Common terms and phrases
Ancon appointed Article authority Boca Bohio building Canal Zone cent Chagres River CHAIRMAN charge chief engineer city of Panama Colonel ERNST committee Congress construction cost Cristobal Cromwell cubic Culebra DAVIS dredging duties employees excavation executive exercise feet French Gamboa Gatun Gatun dam Government governor HAINS harbor Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama June La Boca laborers land letter lock canal material matter ment miles Miraflores necessary Obispo operation Pacific Panama and Colon Panama Canal Company Panama Railroad Company pipe line ports present President question rates Republic of Panama sanitary sea-level canal Secretary of War Secretary TAFT Senator ANKENY Senator DRYDEN Senator HOPKINS Senator KITTREDGE Senator MORGAN Senator SIMMONS Senator TALIAFERRO ship Shonts shovels silver Suez supplies territory tion track treaty United vessels WALLACE Washington width
Popular passages
Page 2524 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 2386 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal...
Page 2579 - States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of any other lands and waters outside of the Zone above described which may l>e necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said enterprise.
Page 2582 - ... during the life of this convention of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in like gold coin, beginning nine years after the date aforesaid. The provisions of this Article shall be in addition to all other benefits assured to the Republic of Panama under this convention. But no delay or difference of opinion under this Article or any other provisions of this Treaty shall affect or interrupt the full operation and effect of this convention in all other respects.
Page 2357 - ... vessels, dredges, engines, cars, machinery, tools, explosives, materials, supplies, and other articles necessary and convenient in the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the Canal and auxiliary works, and all provisions, medicines, clothing, supplies and other things necessary and convenient for the officers, employees, workmen and laborers in the service and employ of the United States and for their families.
Page 2583 - If it should become necessary at any time to employ armed forces for the safety or protection of the canal, or of the ships that make use of the same, or the railways and auxiliary works, the United States shall have the right, at all times and in its discretion, to use its police and its land and naval forces or to establish fortifications for these purposes.
Page 2414 - The Government of the Republic of Panama shall permit the immigration and free access to the lands and workshops of the Canal and its auxiliary works of all employees and workmen of whatever nationality under contract to work upon or seeking employment upon or in any wise connected with the said Canal and its auxiliary works, with their respective families, and all such persons shall be free and exempt from the military service of the Republic of Panama.
Page 2583 - Government or the citizens and subjects of a third power relative to an interoceanic means of communication which in any of its terms may be incompatible with the terms of the present convention, the Republic of Panama agrees to cancel or modify such treaty in due form, for which purpose it shall give to the said...
Page 2415 - Panama shall nominate two persons and they shall proceed to a decision; but in case of disagreement of the Commission (by reason of their being equally divided in conclusion), an umpire shall be appointed by the two Governments who shall render the decision.
Page 2416 - ... all right, title and interest which it now has or may hereafter have, in and to the lands, canal, works, property and rights held by the said companies under said concessions or otherwise, and acquired or to be acquired by the United States from or through the New Panama Canal Company...