May 2, 1900 (Wednesday)
The Hepburn Bill, for construction of the proposed Nicaragua Canal passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 225–35, but would end up stalling in the U.S. Sentate. The bill proposed American purchase of land in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to build a canal from Greytown, Nicaragua on the Caribbean to Breto on the Pacific.
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