| Show CANAL REPORT IN THE SENATE Nicaragua Route is Favored by bythe bythe bythe the Commission THE COST OF WATERWAY 4 t ROUTH MORE B 4 7 ASHINGTON Dec Dee 4 The report W V V of or the Ute Isthmian canal commis commission comm l sion Sian was U sent to congress c today The commission lon as all anticipated several Beveral weeks ago favors 8 vore the Nicaragua route and snakes makes an estimate of l 8 2 as the total cost co t of construction con of the canal through Nicaragua The esti ceLl estimated estimated mated cost of the Panama route is SIB but the report repert says it would cost eo t to obtain the Panama The commission values the Ute work done at 40 The report says MYS the Panama route is feasible as u a sea IN level canal while the Nicaragua route must be by locks looks but t Lake Nicaragua will furnish tarnish an inexhaustible supply of o water for the theca I canal ca The Nicaragua route has no natural harbors at either end but sat satisfactory satIsfactorY harbors may be constructed Harbors already aI dy exist at each end of the Panama route routt but considerable work mu must tt be he done at the entrance of the harbor on the Atlantic side With adequate force and plant tie the e commission estimate es mate that the Nicer Nicaragua agua gua 0 canal can be completed in six si years exclusive of two to years for prep preparation preparation Ten years is estimated to corn com complete the Panama canal The total length of the Nicaragua route is miles In lies and the Panama route eo miles The estimated cost eort of operating and maintaining the Ue Nicaragua canal annually is greater than that of t the Panama canal cana The estimated l tune time inie for a deep draught vessel ves el to pass through the Panama canal is twelve ve hours and through the Nicaragua canal hours Advantage of Nicaragua 4 Route Boute The Nicaragua route the Ule report says mys is more advantageous for com corn commerce commerce merce mere save that originating on the west coast cout of South America For the gulf CUlf ports the advantage is two days and aad for most of the ports on the At Atlantic Atlantic lantic and Pacific one day da The Nic Nicaragua Nicaragua aragua aracua route is III said to be hotter better for sailing ling vessels on account of favoring fa winds conditions also favor Nicaragua The commission says ay the United States should acquire control of a strip of err territory ten miles wide from sea pea seato eato peato to sea through h which to build the th canal The consent of Nicaragua and AD Costa CotIta Rica must be obtained to con construct the canal but the report says this t can easily ea l be secured The con concessions conce ton cessions ce granted bj by b the Colombian government t to the Panama Canal com corn company company pany palsy have many years to run run and new concessions cannot be granted anted the United States The report concludes as 5 follows After considering all the facts de tie developed by the investigations made by the commission the actual situation as it now no stands stand and having haing in view the terms offered by bv the new Panama anal Canal company this commission l Is of or orthe the opinion that the most practicable and ad feasible route for an isthmian canal to be under the control man management management and nd nd ownership of the United States IF Sr that known as the Nicaragua route rout Report of Minority George S Morrison a member of The fhe commission submits a minority tt t favoring the Panama route He Say ayd the estimates for the Nicaraguan canal do not make sufficient provisions for unknown conditions and contin contingencies contingencies contingencies No consideration he says BatS has been given to accidental interruption tion of traffic by bv Nicaragua which he be bethinks thinks would not be so likely to occur at Panama He believes that better conditions and terms can be arranged through the acquisition of the Panama Canal rights rigl s than by bv any negotiations with ith Nicaragua and Costa osta The Tho nt after aft i securing Continued on 00 Page Pare J Jj 2 j CANAL REPORT I IN THE SENATE I I Contained from fro Page Pase L I these rights he says could c ld negotiate direct with Colombia for the t right to construct ec the canaL He closes by byThe saying j The Panama route has bas advantages over OTer the Nicaragua route In tit cost of construction oon ia in cost coet of operation and andin andIn andIn in convenience when whet done doRe while its use is lees lass to lead toad to local inter international InternatiOnal national nati nI complications If Ti the United States government is to build an all luth isthmian isthmian mian mien canal the Panama route is the best beat 1 Bills in the Senate Two bills bilte looking l to lo the construe construction Uon tion of a canal via the Nicaragua route were introduced today in the senate The first of these m se was presented by Senator Morgan and is fa as follows j i That the president of the United j States be and is Ie hereby sutherland authorised to acquire from and to conclude agree agreements meats ments with the states stat of Costa Rica Rte and Nicaragua or either of them for fori forand i i and in behalf of or the United States for forI forthe forthe I the fun full control of such web portion of ter territory terI I now belonging to Costa Coata Rica and Nicaragua as may be desirable on which to excavate construct govern regulate police and aM protect a caral of such depth and capacity as wll be bt sufficient for the movements of ships of the greatest tonnage and draft now in Inu use u from a point near G on the Caribbean sea sea via Lake Nicaragua to Breto on the Pacific ocean and such sum as may be necessary to se so secure secure cure necessary nece ary rights privileges and such sueh control is Ia hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury otherwise The other bill was introduced by Senator Parkins Parking and provides for tor a perpetual lee lease lea e by the United States of the right of way across Nicaragua a and Costa COlta Rica and confers military police pollee and sanitary control of the canal c nal route by the United States Big Appropriation It makes an aa appropriation of or of or which sum 12 is ie to be expended annually A nonpartisan commission is to be appointed by the president to have charge of the tho tb canal the members of the Ute commission to be selected from different dl t parts of the United States State and to be paid salary each per year This Thle commission is to have its headquarters at Rivas Nicaragua with a branch office in Washington The appointment of en engineers engineers also is authorized authorised It is further provided that the canal shall be of the dimensions dl recommended recommended recommended mended by the Isthmian canal commis commission commission commission sion The commission proposed pro is em empowered powered to make all contracts and to supervise their performance no con contract contract contract tract to be legal until ratified by a majority of the commissioners The commission slon is to report semiannually to the president and to keep accurate accounts of its transactions It is ex ox explicitly provided that no commissioner ner or employee shall ahaB be interested in any contract connected with the construe construction construction tion don of the canal The bIll authorizes the president of the United Ul ted States to tomake tomake tomake make minor changes in the route rout rec rae recommended recommended for the canal and of the construction con |
