HERON FISHING AT HEAD- WATER STREAM : AS THE SHORES OF THE LAKE OPEN UP 

 THEY WIEL BE A FAVORITE RESORT FOR ALL WADING BIRDS 



powers under the treaty are concerned, 

 they are ample to enable us to acquire all 

 the lands needed." 



The treaty in question was proclaimed 

 by President Roosevelt, February 26, 

 1904, and contained several broad stipu- 

 lations altogether sufficient to meet pres- 

 ent requirements. Article II, after grant- 

 ing, under definite boundaries, the 10- 

 mile zone, further provides that the 

 United States shall be granted "in per- 

 petuity the use, occupation, and control 

 of any other lands and waters outside of 

 the zone, above described, which may be 

 necessary and convenient for the con- 

 struction, maintenance, operation, sanita- 

 tion, and protection of the said canal." 



,TIME MUST BE FIXED 



The acceptance of this privilege is not 

 operative, of course, without proof that 

 such enlargement is "necessary and con- 

 venient" in the use and protection of the 

 canal. A demand, therefore, must be 

 made for a compliance with this agree- 

 ment. However liberal this offer, no in- 



dependent nation can yield or another ac- 

 cept sovereignty over a territory without 

 a proper definement of the ceded land, in 

 order to determine the date of transfer 

 and the permanent assumption of a juris- 

 diction thereover. 



Eleven years have now elapsed since 

 the treaty went into effect, and good faith 

 as well as expediency suggests negotia- 

 tions for determining the amount of land 

 or adjacent waters needed to protect the 

 United States in its use of the canal. 

 While the treaty is silent as to additional 

 compensation, such an omission should be 

 disregarded and an appropriation made 

 in proportion to the value of the addi- 

 tional grant. 



All or a part of this sum might be used 

 by Panama in the purchase of the bound- 

 ary territory from Costa Rica, now under 

 dispute, thereby restoring to Panama an 

 area that would serve as an equivalent 

 for the cession of the additional land, and 

 at the same time bringing the three na- 

 tions concerned into a mutual adjustment 

 of their territorial rights. 



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