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Show 22 A days after the Canal COImnission' f ew it public, was negotiated Britain had Great The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. sive right of French sion that month January of in later, Meanwhile, of a canal passed by harder of the Sena-te This to figh-t the across the the of the president Routes' at to a from Colombia isthmus. 308 the House for the construc- January 9, to 2. of finally passed the acquire bill faced an open advocate cost not control conditions time, the the Panama Senate Panama bill in route Out Canal. June includ- and met within authorized The and a the amended Senate land of strip a by only eight in the auth- bill, $40 million, being then the of holdings, of a Amendment. Canal French exceed to perpetual the Spooner Nicaraguan all it 1902, The support. the came changed in On These construct opponents of of vote A route. debated had considerable the president to Panama being attached to the amount; Corunis- Canal Commission Canal Senate where Roosevel t, route, railroad, reasonable The in "Battle obtain bill lop-sided Panama was the the of favor bill a 1902, through Nicaragua. amendment, orized ing the the events, States appropriated $180 million have which would these to accept $40 million for its holdings. it would its recommendation in tion Reacting and regulate, construct, to Company advised the United Canal and States treaty recognized the exclu new isthmian canal. any was treaty which superseded the a States united the united the that revealed report s canal votes. House |
