Suggestion that Possessions be Bought by U.
Washington, Feb. 9. a speech in the Houre of Representatives to-day Mr. Hamilton Fish junior advocated the purchase! vat European possessions in the Waribbean Soa and in Centval at Routh America with a view advemuately to protect the Panama Canal and also with a view to lifting the burden of War Debts from britain and from France.
He declared that the United Stated! should willingly pay ten ti appraised value of such possessions, "even if we had to cancel hundreds of millions of the debt of Britain andi half as much as the French debt would be worth it in the long:
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