Telegrams and Cablegrams
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United States. Second Isthmian Canal Commission
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The Second Isthmian Canal Commission was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt on March 8, 1904. By Presidential order of May 9, 1904, under authority of the Panama Canal Act of 1902 (32 Stat. 481), approved June 28, 1902, and the Panama Canal Act of 1904 (33 Stat. 429), approved April 28, 1904, the Secretary of War was made supervisor of canal construction and the Second Isthmian Canal Commission was vested with all Canal Zone government power. The Commission consisted of seven members, app...
United States. First Isthmian Canal Commission
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The proposal of the Compagnie Nouvelle de Canal de Panama in December 1898 to transfer its rights and properties in the canal in Panama to the United States, and the increasing awareness of the need for shorter interoceanic communications in time of war, prompted Congress on March 3, 1899, to authorize an exhaustive series of investigations to determine the most practical route for a canal, which should be owned and controlled by the United States. Accordingly, on June 10, 1899, President Willia...
