Panama Canal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 79, 7 April 1904, Page 2

Panama Canal.

NEW YORK, Fob. 27. On February 2:Sm the United States Semite, l>y n vote of G(i to 14, ratified tlie Panama Canal Treaty, and on February 2(ith President Roosevelt signed and issued a proclamation pin ling (lie treaty into effect. Legal questions still unsettled are, tirsi, (]„. effect upon the canal payments of the pending litigation in France. The t'l.loinliijui Government, is suing to prevent the directorate of the nciv Panama Canal Company from refusing (I K . admission 01 Colombian reprcsental i\ es to Hie board ; but it in stated Hint the State Department at Washington has iiiiolliei.il assurances Unit the French ,1,01111 does not seriously regard the Colombian contention, a i„l «i|| reject "" .HiML. Another legal question is whether under the terms of the SpooDcr Act, |iie 10,0U0,UH(ldol which was to have'been paid to Colombia can he l" ud »'Kt<--iid to Panama. The At-orney-t.ene,,,! will decide whoLher nil 1 her legislation on this p,>in( j s n-T'iirod. in the meantime President lioosevelt is selecting his Canal Commission, choosing Kear-Ad-m<™ John (I. Walker (representing the navy), Major-Ceneral (ieorg* \. Davis (lor the army), William liarclay Parsons (engineer of the Now iork subway), William Jl Hurr (professor of engineering at the Colombia University), irnd C. k,|. ward Gunsky <„ hydraulic enginee: 01 Snnrraucisco). There will be two •■"H'l-h who are not llow tlclißitv _ 'y decided upon.

(A cable message a few diivs ago slated that the Colombia,,' ( !ou ,V ment had been non-suited in its case against the Panama Company.)