Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 819.77/78.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Panama, October 9, 1911.

The bill forbidding any loan for constructing the Panamá-David railroad and authorizing use therefor of $6,000,000 now invested in New York, is being rushed through the Assembly. Article 138 of the Constitution is canceled by the bill.

Andrews.