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.[Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907].. 1906U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
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It must be remembered , and it is well known to persons engaged in large transportation problems , that it is much easier to retain and regulate the movement of traffic along lines to which it has been accustomed than it is to regain it ...
It must be remembered , and it is well known to persons engaged in large transportation problems , that it is much easier to retain and regulate the movement of traffic along lines to which it has been accustomed than it is to regain it ...
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Who was the most prominent and most active person in having you , then , forced into office , first as a director and afterwards as general manager ? Mr. WALLACE . That was all understood ; that was talked over at Washington before we ...
Who was the most prominent and most active person in having you , then , forced into office , first as a director and afterwards as general manager ? Mr. WALLACE . That was all understood ; that was talked over at Washington before we ...
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He dictates - or did then , when you first came in , dictate the majority of the board of directors ; but there were still persons who were elected in some way by the stockholders that had not as yet sold their stock ? Colonel ERNST .
He dictates - or did then , when you first came in , dictate the majority of the board of directors ; but there were still persons who were elected in some way by the stockholders that had not as yet sold their stock ? Colonel ERNST .
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Colonel , do you know of any person in this country who was a stockholder or a bondholder in the first Panama Canal Company - the French company ? Colonel ERNST . No ; I do not . Senator TALIAFERRO . There were American stockholders ...
Colonel , do you know of any person in this country who was a stockholder or a bondholder in the first Panama Canal Company - the French company ? Colonel ERNST . No ; I do not . Senator TALIAFERRO . There were American stockholders ...
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I want to know whether you were invited to go to Paris by the Panama Canal Company or by any agent or person connected with it ? General HAINS . I do not think I was invited . I think I just made up my mind that I was going over there .
I want to know whether you were invited to go to Paris by the Panama Canal Company or by any agent or person connected with it ? General HAINS . I do not think I was invited . I think I just made up my mind that I was going over there .
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Page 2418 - 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 2392 - 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...
Page 2423 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be 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 2586 - ... this treaty or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the...
Page 2419 - States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said Canal or of the works of sanitation and protection herein provided for, shall be appraised and settled by a joint Commission appointed by the Governments of the United States and the Republic of Panama...
Page 2386 - 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 2418 - Colombia, and the sovereignty of such territory being actually vested in the Republic of Panama, the high contracting parties have resolved for that purpose to conclude a convention and have accordingly appointed as their plenipotentiaries, — The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State, and The Government of the Republic of Panama...
Page 2585 - 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 of the width of ten miles extending to the distance of five miles on each side of the center line of the route of the Canal to be constructed...
Page 2421 - ... 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 2419 - States and in case the Government of Panama is unable or fails in its duty to enforce this compliance by the cities of Panama and Colon with the sanitary ordinances of the United States the Republic of Panama grants to the United States the right and authority to enforce the same. The same right and authority are granted to the United States for the maintenance of public order in the cities of Panama and Colon and the territories and harbors adjacent thereto in case the Republic of Panama should...
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| Title | 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.[Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907].. 1906 59th Cong., 2d sess. Senate. Doc. 401 Volume 3 of 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.[Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907], United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 27 Mar 2007 |
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