DISCUSSES CANAL Col Haines flames Prefers Panama Panama Panama Pana Pana- ma Route Because It Is Shorter and Better WASHINGTON Feb 14 H. Col Peter C. C Haines an engineer member of the Isthmian Isthmian Isthmian mian Canal commission before the Senate Commute Committe on Canals said that neither the Panama Panama nor Nicaraguan Nicara- Nicara guan route combines all aU the advantage b but t that each presents some fome good points The Panama route for instance was shorter while the Nicaragua route r ute was more desirable from a a. sanitary point of view Upon the whole he said he favored fa faVored favored fa- fa the Panama route as combining more advantages than any other Col Haines said in reply to a question from Senator Hanna that if the proffer of the Panama Can Canal ll company to dispose of ot the property to toe United States for 40 10 had been made before the report of the commission recommending the Nicaragua Nicaragua Nicara Nicara- gua route was made he then would have been in favor av of adopting t the Panama re hin tm route and he believed that t would have been the position of the commission