Excerpt from Treaty With Colombia, "the Story of Panama" Speech of Hon. Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado, in the Senate of the United States, January 3, 1921 Duque with Secretary Hay, to whom he gave Duque a note of introduction. Duque saw Mr. Hay the next day. During the conference Duque reported that Mr. Hay said that the United States would build the canal, that it did not purpose that Colombia should stand in the way, and that should the revolutionists occupy Colon and Panama they could depend on the United States to prohibit Colombia's landing troops to attack them and disturb the free and uninterrupted transit which our Government was bound by treaty with Colombia to maintain. He also says that Mr. Hay requested him to remain and confer with the President on his return, which he was unable to do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.