Office of the Historian

711.192/93: Telegram

The Minister in Panama (South) to the Secretary of State

Panama, September 21, 1924—9 a.m.
[Received 2:25 p.m.]

92. My 91, September 20, 2 p.m. The President has informed me that the new proposals were discussed in detail at yesterday’s conference with the President-elect19 which was also attended by the commissioners and that the new President is favorably inclined both to the signing and ratification of the treaty. Mr. Chiari is familiar with all previous negotiations.20

South
  1. Rodolfo Chiari.↩

  2. Further changes in the draft were proposed however by the Panaman negotiators and reported to the Department by the United States Minister, namely: in art. 2, that the boundary line be made definitive and perpetual; in art. 4, par. 1, that bonded warehouses be established in the Canal Zone only by the United States itself and not by private persons; in art. 6, last par., that the right of the United States to make use of the cities and harbors of Panama and Colon for anchorage, loading, etc., be exercised only “in case of emergency”; in art. 8, that the right of the United States to enforce quarantine and sanitary regulations be limited to those which were not of a strictly municipal character. (File nos. 711.192/92, 97, 111.)

    These proposals for further changes were unacceptable to the Department.

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