Message to the Senate Transmitting a Treaty Between the United States and the United States of Colombia for the Construction of an Interoceanic Canal Across the Isthmus of Panama and Darien
To the Senate of the United States:
I transmit, for consideration with a view to its ratification, a treaty between the United States and the United States of Colombia for the construction of an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Panama or Darien, signed at Bogota on the 26th of January last.
A copy of a dispatch of the 1st ultimo to the Secretary of State from General Hurlbut, the United States minister at Bogota, relative to the treaty, is also transmitted for the information of the Senate.
U.S. GRANT.
Ulysses S. Grant, Message to the Senate Transmitting a Treaty Between the United States and the United States of Colombia for the Construction of an Interoceanic Canal Across the Isthmus of Panama and Darien Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/204134