He had resolved to construct the Panama Canal without locks, to make it an uninterrupted navigable way.
In the next year (March - April) he inspected the Panama Canal and also visited Cuba and Porto Rico.
In 1879 a congress assembled in the rooms of the Geographical Society at Paris, under the presidency of Admiral de la Ronciere le Noury, and voted in favour of the making of the Panama Canal.
He was for exempting American shipping from Panama Canal tolls and also supported woman suffrage.
The greatest single material achievement of Mr Roosevelt's presidency was the taking over by the United States of the project to build a Panama Canal.
