Colombia, United States of, 260, 693, 699, 705, 717 attitude of, on Panama, 707 canal negotiations with, 623 canal treaty with, 692 concessions to, 697 government of, 713 inefficiency of, in Panama, 703 Legislature of, 717 sovereignty of, over canal, 714 superseded in Panama, 694 treaty repudiated by, 697, 713 treaty with, 259, 697 United States recommendations to, 699 virtual war of, against United States, 731 Colombian revolutions, United States neutral in, 695 offer on canal treaty, 703, 716 Colon, capture of (1901), 702 United States control in, 708 Colonial Dames, Society of, 53 Colonization, Grecian, 345-346 Colorado, 361, 362, 364 River, Grand Canyon of, 326 Color no bar to office, 512, 515 Colored appointments in South, 516 Colored men, appointments of, 511 as office-holders, 510-514 in offices, 510-518 in United States offices, 511 opportunity for, 512 victims of lynching, 524 population, duty of the, 525 troops at Santiago, 446 Columbia, District of. See District of Columbia Columbia University, 27-33 Columbus, Christopher, 151 Combination in restraint of trade, a, 282 Combinations, abuse of, unwarranted, 102 against evils, 100 benefit of, 26 labor, 26 necessity of, 542 need of regulating, 26 of capital, 26 controlling, 610 power of acting in, 548 reason for, 618 urban population and, 100 Commerce, American, development of, 656 Commission, Interstate, 649 currency and, 555 damage to, in war, 670 destruction of, in war, 672 farm products in, 557 foreign, growth of, 651 growing, in East, 98 in ancient times, 391-392 Interstate, Commission, 556 interstate, safety in, 685 interstate, situation on, 611-612 Commerce Law, Interstate, 545, 556 decisions on, 279 enforced, 660 ineffective, 279 strengthened, 280 Commerce, modern means in, 152, 170 Monroe Doctrine and, 576 needs of our, 617 old methods in, 113, 151 supervision of, 651 Commerce and Labor, Department of, 277, 476, 649-652 act establishing, 545 duties of, 620, 650 employees of, 649 importance of, 545 need for, 620 plea for, 620 Secretary of, 277, 519, 520, 545, 656, 658, 678 work of, 649 Commission, Coal Strike, 308 Fish and Fisheries, 639 International Exchange, 655 Land, recommended, 638 Land-Law, 681 Tariff, proposed, 616 Common school system, 591 Common-sense, 488 and honesty, 493 policy, a, 271 value of, 30 Communication, means of, 337 Community of welfare, 472 Commutation Clause, Homestead Law, 680 Competition, unjust and destructive, 556 Competitive examinations, written, 592 Complexity, present, of life, 101 Comradeship of soldiers, 14, 365 Concentration of population, 274 of wealth, 274