Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — BLACKBURN GIVES UP POST [ARTICLE]

BLACKBURN GIVES UP POST

Retires as Member of the Isthmian Canal Commlssison. Washington. Dec. 10.—It is officially announced at the war department that former Senator J. C. S. Blackburn has resigned as a member of the Isthmian canal commission. His resignation was accepted by President Taft Herbert G. Squiers now in this country on leave of absence, will not return to his post as American minister to Panama. A report is current that the state department intends to abolish the mission at Panama, and turn over diplomatic affairs to the civil governor of the canal zone who will be appointed to succeed former Governor Blackburn.