To the Senate:
In response to the resolution of the Senate of February 18, 1904, as follows:
" Resolved, That the President is requested, if not incompatible with the public interests, to send to the Senate such information as is in possession of the Government of the United States as to the present state of organization of the Government of the Republic of Panama.
"And a copy of the constitution of said Republic, or such information as to the provisions thereof as may have been received by him.
"And that he will inform the Senate as to any ordinance, or other proceeding of the constitutional convention recently in session at Panama, relating to the Hay-Varilla treaty now pending in the Senate."
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State on the subject.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Theodore Roosevelt, Special Message Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206530