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r i Vol. lvii. ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JAKUAKY 8. 190, NO. 78. mm PRESIDENT Says We Did Not Incite the Pcojplc i liof the Isthmus tq Rebellion I Against Colombia; n y: Our Duty in Securing Canal Was Plain, as j Was Effort of Colombia to Up for an Enormous Sum for Necessary Washington, Jan 4. The nte' flmt Mloit wat devottd entirely to Panama. President Roovell ttiil a meagt oft tht uhjx-t which wan re alvtd with grtat Inttrtwt. Tht die union continued throughout tht day, , echt Mug mailt both In defense , id against tht policy which had hn Pursued. McComn defended tht pre Idvnt and asserted hi action will stand If tried In court. ' '', "' Sttwart, of Nevada, " aeverly crltl cld tht Itagota government for ll selfish action In preventing the eon it rut t Ion of tht canal. Mwrgnn, of Alabama, .UUtd bit JT.f trtmt fur tht Nicaragua, route, and maintained thut tht present course of tht administration was breaking down tht ettubllshed 'policy of tht United State regarding neutrality. . Rev. Kdward lliile. tht new chap lain of tht senate, dud In flowing black Ilk clerical robe, "rcupled tht chair of tht presiding officer Just preceding tht session, And on the body being I called to order, offered a ttlrrlng Invo- I cation. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Pull R.ply tt Thott Who Hvt Crltl elttd Our Polity. President Roovelt lays before cong ret a statement of hit action up to tbt present tlmt of tht act approved June 2A, 1902, by which tht president wm authorised to atcurt 'tor the United State tht property of tht Pan- ma Canal Company and tht perpetual f control of a atrip six ml lea wldt across ' tht liihmut of Panama." It wa. furth. er provided that, "ahoull the prealdent be unable to obtuln for tht United Stolen a satisfactory title to tht prop 2 PER CENT On Clothing'. Goods Hats, Excepting only Dunlap Hats, E. & W. Collars, Oil and Kubbor Goods and Don ts Gloves. THIS MEANS A GREAT SACRIFICE as our goods are sold on very close margins. ; SALE COMMENCES Monday, January 4, 1904. TELLS OF RELATIONS WITH PANAMA Concession. trty of tbt new Panama Canal Com tuiy'aiid tht control of tht iKtcenaury territory of the republic of Colombia wlhlrf reasonable time iid upon rn omiMo term" then the prealdent should ndtavor 4o provldt for eanal by the NlcaMgui route, , I Tht pi evident tay that when thl government submitted to Columbia the II iy-lleiiait Uv4iy three thing were atreadyaettled. one wn thut the canal should be built; the attend, that It thould be "our purpose, to deal not merely in a spirit of Justice, but In a ;ltlt of generosity with the people through whose land we might build It. Thv Hay-Moi-ran treaty any the presl dent, "It' It erred at all, erred In tht di rection of over generoalty toward the Colombia government. In our anxiety to be fair we had gone to the verge In yielding to a we.tk nation' demanl ttlmt that nation wan helplessly unable to enforce from us agalnt our will. The only grille Ism made upon the ad ministration for the term of the Hay- HttiTJii trwitr wu for having granted too much to Colombia, not for failure to grant enough,' Neither In the cong re nor In the public prttt, at the time ihl treaty waa formulated, wu there complaint that It did not In the fullcat ml nmpleat manner guarantee to Co lombia everything that le could by any color of title demanded. "Nor I the Tact to be loal night of that tbt rejected treaty, while gener ously responding to the pecuniary de muiuU of Colombia, In other reMct merely ivlded for tht conatructlon cf Iht canal In conformity with the ex pre requirement of tht act of cong reel on Junt 18, 1903." Coi ttnulng, the preddent tayt: REDUCTION Furnishing' Shoes. Etc. OUR TI : treaty, Inwtead of requiring a rexalun of Colombia' overfignlty over tht canal atrip, exprtwdy acknowledged, confirmed and preserved her aovertlgri lly over It. The treaty In thlt reaptct alitiply proceeded on tht line on which 1 nil n gotUitlon. leading up to the pret ent Hltuatlon have been conducted,' "Ouring the , year of . negotiation an 1 dlM'Umlon that prei-eded the con- lualun of the Itay-Iferraa treaty, Co- : lo'.nbln never Intimated that the re- i i qutrentent by tht United Buu of eon trol over the canal atrip would render uivittalnahle tle conatructlon of a 'canal by way of tht lthmu of Panama; nor ' mere' we adled, during the month! n hen Jci lttlon of 1MJ wa pending J befort the congre, that tht term j which t era'wtitd would render ne gotlatloiii with Colombia Impracticable. It I plain that no nation could con struct and guarantee tht neutrality of the canal with a t-a dgree of control than wn mlpulutw! for on the Hay Hi lrnn treity." A refuaal to grant uch degree if control wa necewarily att f hkmI to make any practicable treaty at nil. . . ( , , ; ;; "Thut tht cjinul ltelf wa eagerly demanded by the peoplt of tht locality through which '.t wrt to pa, and that tbt people Of thlt locality no leu tag eily for It conatructlon under Ameri can !ontrol, are ahown by the unan imity of the action in the new Punama repuMlc. Furthermore, Colombia, ufler having rejected the treaty In plt of our protenl and warning when It wa In her power to accept It, ha alnce how u the utinoat eagernex to accept the Minw treaty If only the atatu quo rou'd be reatored. One of the men lnntllng highest In the official circlet of C(lomt-:.t, on November , addreed the American mlniater at IJogola, ay Ing that If the jtoveriilhent of the United (State would land troop to pre serve Colombia aoverelgnlty and the trnnlt the Colombian government would declare martial law; and by vir tue of vested constitutional authority, when public order la dleturbed, would appiove by decree the ratification of t!e canal treaty a signed; or, If tht S jvernment of the United State would c ill extra ae union of the congre with new und friendly member next May to appiove the treaty. "Third Finally the congre definit ely aettled where the canal wa to be built. It wat provided that a treaty should be made for building the canal heron the lathmu of Panama; and If, after it naonable time. It proved lmpo ttihle to ei-ure auch tivnty, that then we hiiuld go to Nicaragua. The treaty has tn made; for It need no argu ment to hov Jlhiit the Intent of the coneres wa to Inaure n canal across Panama," , The president relate the delay of the '.'oloniblan cotgre8 In taking action on the treaty and the breaking out of the revolution three day ufter that boay onded its session In October with out pausing upon the document. "Panama," he say, "became an ln lepcndent atate and the control of the territory necessary for building ; the en mil then became, obtainable. Tht condition under which alone we could haw gone to Nicaragua thereby be came Impossible of fulfillment. If the pending treaty yt'tth Panama should not r:i titled by the senate, thl would not niter the fact that we could not go to Nicaragua. The congress has decided the route and there 1 no alternative under existing legislation." The president says that Secretary Hay had repeatedly warned Colombia that grava consequences might follow from her rejection of the treaty, and, although the administration had spec ial means of knowledge, no such mean were necessary In order to appreciate the possibility of a revolutionary out break. . "Quotations from the dally papers," says he, "could be Indefinitely multi plied to show this state of affairs," and tho V'rsldent quotes dispatches sent by special correspondents to Washington ami New York papers under dates ex tending over a period from August SI to October 26, telling of the stirred con dition of .iff area. The president had also, on October 15, at the request of Lieutenant-General Young, seen Captain H. B. ',.'' V 't Humthrey und Lieutenant Orayson Mailet-ProvoRt Murphy, who had just i r turned from a four month' tour through portions of Venezuela and Co loml,in. Ttiey had informed him that it wu the general belief that the revo lution might' break out at any moment. "In vw of all the facts," says tht r resilient, 1 detected the navy depart ment to Issue Instruction such u would Insure your having ship within easy reach of tht Isthmua in tbt event of need arising.' Than on Novemb?r t, when It wa evl lent tht outbreak waa Imminent, in struction had been tent to the com m inder of the Boston, Nashville and l;le, ' to maintain fret, and unlnter rured transit. If Interruption It threat ened by armed force, occupy the line of ralli-oid. ; Prevent landing of any aimed force with hostile Intent, either ffovemmtnt or insurgent, at any point within SO mile of Panama." j On NovemberJ,Commander John Hub bard ,of tht Nash'dlle, had reported to Ui- navy department that 400 Co lombian troop from Cartagena had bmded In Colon and that tht situation waa most critical. Tht president theu quote from Commander Hubbard' re port on November 6 to tht navy de partment, In, which tht commander said the xcurrencet of November S lu,d "amounted o practically the mak ing of war against the United State by the offlcart In command of tbt Co lombian troopt In Colon." The United State consul had re ceived notice from Colonel Torres to the effwt that If the Colombian officer Generals Tobal and Amaya, who had been seised In Panama on November S by the Independents. Were not re leased by 3 o'clock he, Torres, "would open fire on the town of Colon and kill every United States citlten In the place. Commander Hubbard then re lates the landing of the marine, under command of Lieutenant-Commander Wltxel, as- told In the press dispatches at the time, and the threatening atti tude of the native soldiers while the United States marines were entrenched In the railroad company's ahed, where oar cltlwn had tilken refug. Com mander Hubbard told also of refusing to allow Superintendent Shaler, of the Panama railroad, to transport troops for either lde, The president contin ues: "Thl plain official account of the oc-cu-rences of November 4 thowt that Instead of there having been too much provision by the American government for the maintenance of order and the protection of life and property on tho Isthmus, the orders for the movement of the American warships had been too long delayed; o long. In fact, that there were but 42 marines and sailors available to land and protect the lives of American men and women. It was only the coolness and the gallantry with which this little band of men wearing the American uniform faced 10 time their number of armed foes, bent on carrying out the atrocious threat of the Colombia commander, that prevented the murderous catas trophe. At Panama, when the revo lution broke out, there was no Ameri can man of war and no American troops or sailors. At Colon, Command er Hubbard acted with entire impar tiality toward both sides, preventing any movsmmt whether by the Colom- blnns or the Pannmnns which would tenl to produce bloodshed." The aresldent then quotes from nn articles In the New York Evening Post, under date of Panama, December S. In which in nn Interview a native Pnna man Is quoted as saying: "We were willing to encounter the Colombian troops at Colon and fight It out, but the commander of the United States cruiser Nashville, forbid Super intendent Shaler to allow the railroad to- transport troops for either party." 'H clearly appears," says tfle presi dent, "that the fact that there was no bloodshed on the Isthmus was directly due and only due to the prompt and Arm enforcement by the United States of Us traditional policy. During the p:ist 40 years revolutions and attempts at revolution have succeeded one an other with monotonous regularity on the Isthmus, ami rtgnln and again United States sailors and marines have been lunded as they were landed In this Instance and under similar Instruc tions to protect the transit. One of these revolutions resulted in three years of warefnre; and the ag.irremte of bloodshed and misery caused by them has been Incalculable. The fact that In this last revolution not a life (Continued on page four.) REPLY OF RUSSIA IS IN HANDS OF ALEXIEFF TO BE DELIVERED TO JAPAN As to Acceptance None Will Express an Opinion, but From Russia's Point of View Japan Can Avoid War. Situation Does Not Alter And Preparations for Hostilities Continue by LittleJBrown MenSteam Coal Ordered From Wales "Fall of Securites on Bourse Cause the Undoing of Many Brokers Interested. Paris, Jan. 4. The St. Petersburg correspondent of tht Herald tayt tht reply of tht Russian government to the Japanese government It now in the band of Ad-nlral Alexleff, who will de liver It whin he consider the fitting moment ha arrived. Tht correspondent add: "At to whether Russia' reply will be accept able to Japan, no ont here will ex pre an opinion. From Russia', point of view It I framed In a manner which Japan can honorably accept.' ' Broker Art Ruined. London, Jan. 4. Special cablegram from Toklo printed in thl. morning newspapers have nothing new to report concerning tht situation beyond a heavy fall In all. aecurltle on the bourse as a result of which several broken havt been ruined. ' Japan Orders Coal. ' Cardiff, Wales, Jan. 4. It is reported on the coal exchange today that Japan ! placing orders here for 80,000 tons of steam boat, conditioned on a shipment during January. - Forty thousand tons of staam coal have already been bought by Japan from the Wales' mines. . War Boats Sail Eastward. Malta, Jan.,. 4. Five Russian tor pedo boat destroyers sailed from here today In an eastward direction. PRAYS THAT WAR MAY BE AVERTED IN ORIENT. Chaplain in Houst Offer up Ftvtrtnt Invocation Sharp Dtbata Ovtr Privilege Resolution. - Washington, Jan. 4. With the reas sembling of congress today the chap lain of the house in the opening' ses sion of that body prayed that war be- GREAT SALE All the thousands of articles that are on our shelves and .'counters.. All the gqods that'are comprised in our enor mous stock of best first-class merchandise. Everything is reduced in price. Heavy, substantial, gratifying reduc tions. ' '';.'". You can buy anything that is needed for personal wear or for use in your home for less money now than an v other time in the vcttr. ' . ' 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 I 9 0 4 DIARIES, TIDE TABLES, CHARTS. START RIGHT, KEEP 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 Groceries, Hardware, Ship Chandle ry, Paints, Oil and Glass Hardwood Lumber Boat Supplies etc. j? AT FISHER BROTHERS Cor. Bond and I2th Sts. twten Russia and Japan might be av-yerted- A privileged resolution offered by Mr. Hay, democrat, rectted that certain statement contained In the Briatow pontofSc. report, reflected upon tht membership of tbt bouse. It provided tor an Investigation by a committee to bo appointed by the speaker. A Pvint of order made against the reso lution by Gardner wa overruled and the same fate met Payne, (republican, N. T.) who desired to refer tbt reso lution to the poatoRlce committee. A vote on ordering iht previous question resulted In a tie, the minority aupport Irig Mr. Hay. Tht vote developed nt quorum, and the "touse adjourned. MINISTER DRAWS LESSON. New York, Jan. 4. In a sermon built upon the lesson taught by the Chicago- theater Are. Dr." George C. Lorlmer, of the , Madison avenue Baptist church, said: , , , :' while we are investigating the cause ofthe Chicago disaster, it would be well to enlarge our inquiries and tee to It that Hnfe 1. not In other place unnecessarily Imperilled. "Thl catastrophe, also raise the question whether the whole business of amusement "Is not greatly overdone. Time was when theaters were open In the evening only,' then camt the week end afternoon performance, but now there are some shows that rua wide open from morning until late at night, as though theater going was the supreme end of life. Sunday J also encroached upon, particularly la Chicago. And, apart from the peril of life there It this question confront ing parents, whether It is advisable tt develop this taste for theater going in such young children a. perished lv the Chicago fire." , ; THIS MONTH 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 1904 CARDS. CALENDARS, ETC RIGHT, BUY RIGHT. 1 9 0 4 J. N. 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