History of the United States . :)eralprovisions for the United States asthe builder of the canal, was sub-stituted for it (1901). SecretaryHay forthwith set about negotiating a treatywith Colombia, the terms of which were toinclude a ninety-nine years lease of a strip ofland six miles wide, with the right of renewalby the United States, and the payment toColombia of $10,000,000 in cash, with an. Colombia re-jects pro-posal ofUnited Statesfor PanamaCanal Copyright, 1906, by ClinedinstTHEODOKE ROOSEVELT Born New York, Oct. 27,1858. Was graduated Har-vard, 1880; member NewYork legislature, 1882-1
History of the United States . :)eralprovisions for the United States asthe builder of the canal, was sub-stituted for it (1901). SecretaryHay forthwith set about negotiating a treatywith Colombia, the terms of which were toinclude a ninety-nine years lease of a strip ofland six miles wide, with the right of renewalby the United States, and the payment toColombia of $10,000,000 in cash, with an. Colombia re-jects pro-posal ofUnited Statesfor PanamaCanal Copyright, 1906, by ClinedinstTHEODOKE ROOSEVELT Born New York, Oct. 27,1858. Was graduated Har-vard, 1880; member NewYork legislature, 1882-1884;appointed to Civil ServiceCommission 1889-95; pres- poircecJmmis°ionerI,i895- anuual rental of $250,000, beginning nine 1897; assistant secretary ofnavy, 1897; resigned to tntUl^iLTTouToT/d the Colombian Senate.^ colonel, 1898; governor ofNew York, 1899-1900; Vice-President with WilliamMcKinley,_ 1901, succeed-ing to Presidency on deathof latter, Sept. 14, 1901;elected President, 1904; be-came nominee of Progres-sive Party in 1912. years later. The proposal was rejected by In Panama, dissatisfaction with the de-cision of the Colombian Senate manifesteditself at once, and this disaffection the UnitedStates government was accused of insurrection followed in November, Colombian government hurried troops to Colon, but UnitedStates marines prevented their transporta
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