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President Roosevelt Defends Panama Canal Purchase
President Roosevelt submits a special message to Congress defending the 1904-1906 purchase of the Panama Canal site from the New Panama Canal Company of France. He denounces libelous charges of graft, names Joseph Pulitzer as a key scoffer, and outlines the legal framework, title clearance, and the distribution of the $40 million payment through Morgan & Co. and the French courts.
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New York
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Canal
Indianapolis
the News
Delavan Smith
Smith
the World
Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer
Panama
Oractine
Charles P. Taft
William H. Taft
Douglas Robinson
Cromwell
Panama Canal Company
W. H. Taft
Mr. Taft
Wit
Root
Department
Mr. Knox
Taft
Mr. Robinson
World
Senate
New
Paris
Council of Administration
Knox
Atlantic
Pacific Oceans
France
Panama Railroad Company
Canal Company
Department of Justice
Presiden
Executive Department
New Panama Canal Company
John Hay
Elihu Root
P. C. Knox
Pennsylvania
Hay
Panama Company
William Dudley Foulke
de Lessep
New Jersey
Ol d
Zens
Seine
the Seine
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Company
Bank of France
Treasury Department
Bank of Franca
Civil Tribunal
Panama Canal Company of
Isthmian Canal Commission
Civil Tribunal of the
de Lesseps
Etienne Marcel
Panama Canal Company of France
Credit Lyonnaise of
Civil Tribunal of the Seine
Department of State
Department of War
Theodore Roosevelt
White House