[177] "Messages and Papers of the Presidents," Vol. VIII, p. 327.
[178] See Mr. Bayard to Mr. Phelps, Nov. 23, 1888. For. Rel., 1888, Pt. I, pp. 759-768.
[179] For. Rel., 1889, p. 468.
[180] See Foreign Relations, 1894, App. 1. "Affairs at Bluefields," pp. 234-363.
[181] Senate Doc. No. 160, Fifty-sixth Cong., First Sess.
[182] Moore, "Digest of Int. Law," Vol. III, p. 211.
[183] Foreign Relations, 1901, p. 245.
[184] Johnson, "Four Centuries of the Panama Canal," Chap. VIII.
[185] Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission (Sen. Doc. No. 54, Fifty-seventh Cong., First Sess.).
[186] U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XXXII, Pt. I, p. 481.