Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1914 — United States is to Pay Columbia Government $25,000,000. [ARTICLE]

United States is to Pay Columbia Government $25,000,000.

An agreement has been reached by which the United States agrees to pay to Columbia 525,000,000 for the partition of Panama and the acquisition of the canal zone. The boundary is outlined in the treaty and the strained relations between this country and the little republic of Columbia are thus amicably concluded. Some ten years ago when the United States are treating with Columbia for the purchase of the canal zone, Columbia kicked over the traces just as the deal was about to be closed. Panama then seceded and the United States treated with the seceding country, paying to it the money that was to have gone to Ooltfmbia. United States gunboats were on hand to see that Panama was not forced to* return to the parent country and the building of the canal proceeded. The action of this country in supporting secession did not meet unanimous approval and many charges were made that the withdrawal of Panama had been inspired by agents of the United States. The treaty just made will close a dispute that has existed since the time of the acquisition of the canal zone. It was consummated at an expense vastly more than the settlement with Columbia could have been made in the first place. The treaty has yet to be approved by the United States senate and the Columbian congress.