Spooner Act
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| Other short titles | Panama Canal Act of 1902 |
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| Long title | An Act To provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
| Enacted by | the 57th United States Congress |
| Effective | June 28, 1902 |
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| Statutes at Large | 32 Stat. 481 |
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The First Spooner Act of 1902 (also referred to as the Panama Canal Act, 32 Stat. 481)[1] was written by a United States senator from Wisconsin, John Coit Spooner, enacted on June 28, 1902, and signed by President Roosevelt the following day. It authorized purchasing the assets of a French syndicate called the Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama, provided that a treaty could be negotiated with the Republic of Colombia.
The syndicate, headed by Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, sold at a price reduced from $110 million to only $40 million. US lawyer William Nelson Cromwell subsequently received a commission of $800,000 for his lobbying.[2][3][4]
The Spooner Act was followed by the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty of November 18, 1903.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Records of the Panama Canal". US National Archives. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ↑ "Panama Canal Act [1902]". History Central. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ↑ "AMERICAN CANAL CONSTRUCTION". Panama Canal Authority. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
- ↑ Kinzer, Stephen (2007). "3. From a Whorehouse to a White House". Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. pp. 56-62.
External links
[edit]- http://www.czbrats.com/Builders/spooner.htm
- http://www.answers.com/topic/panama-canal-purchase-act-1902
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