Show MAY FORTIFY CANAL FORMER SENATOR FORAKER SAYS UNITED STATES RESERVED RIGHT OF MILITARY PATROL in communication to president taft the declaration Is made that england always understood the united states would fortify canal washington A contribution designed to clarify the confused contused cont used situation that has haa arisen over tho the right of tho the united states to fortify the pan panama it ma canal was submitted on sunday by former senator foraker of at ohio to president tatt taft who made it public throughout the period in which the hay treaty was negotiated and ratified rati fled senator foraker advised john ilay hay then secretary of state and made ahny many of 0 the suggestions that were incorporated into the treaty preserving to this the right to take such means as it deemed necessary to protect the canal and the shipping without specifically authorized fortifications senator Fo letter to president tatt taft reviews the acts of the senate in connection with the treaty mak ing with england and laws passed subsequently to the ratification ot of the existing ilay treaty senator foraker shows conclusively that the united states reserved the right ot of military patrol and that england always understood that the canal would be fortified by the united states NEW YEAR LOOKS HOPEFUL william E corey says it would bo be impossible to forecast prospects pittsburg the new year looks hopeful and business at present is encouraging cou raging but at this early date it would be impossible to give more than a casual forecast of the prospects for 1911 this was the statement made by william E corey retiring president of the united states steel corporation 11 after the dinner of the carnegie steel operatives at the du quesne club here given toga of his father charleston W va davis elkins son of the late united states senator stephen B elkins will be the successor to the vacancy caused by tho the death of his father for the few days that will elapse pending the election of a senator by the legislature governor W E glasscock signed the commission sunday night and mr elkins accepted davis elkins Is the eldest son of the late west virginia states nan a T morg nW jrsn a but 4 he Is now in washington at afe home of his mother mr elkins s president of the elkins coal and oke company and the morgantown Morgan town ingwood railroad one reason for many divorces new york mrs carrie chapman att bead of the womans comans party in i he battle tor for equal suffrage thorough Y agrees with judge judg W B D neff of cleveland 0 that what makes dl orce frequent in this country Is tho the let ct that women now find it easy to bo be Inanc nanci lally ally independent of their hus ands there can be no question aa 0 the correctness of 0 this view said ira catt when asked for her opinion if f the statement |