Show ITI CANAL WORK I Thorough Investigation Mut Be lelade of All Routes Washington March 7Te president brought to the attention ot the cabinet today the provision of the river and harbor act relative to the construction of anisthmian canal The purpose was tn 1ptcac nnnn the mnrp tn hI adopted to carry out the decision of congress to make a thorough examina ton of the various routes Nicaragua and Panama and report the result to the next session of congress It was realized that the task set was well nigh impossible of compliance on account ac-count of the enormous amount of work involved in a thorough examination of ever route a was shown by the fact that the Walker commission under the admirals energetic direction was notable not-able to present more than a mere outline out-line of the survey made last summer of theNicaragua route No decision was reached today as to the details but it is believed that the president will have recourse to the plan of appointing one or two additional members to the Walker commission and extending the functions of that body to cover the whole field in Colombia a well as in Nicaragua and Cost JUca Work On Twelfth Census Washington Mach 7ExGoveror Merriam recently appointed superintendent superin-tendent of the twelfth census called on the resldent today in company with Senator Nelsonof Ifnesota i lr Merriam sad he had asked 1Ir Wines of Illinois who had been appointed i ap-pointed asSistant superintendent to come to Washington for a conference cone that the wprk of organizing the force would proceed as rapIdly a possible I pos-sible Mr era will take a short trip wes in about a week and on his retutn he vU select an office and hereafter I hard here-after devote all his time to his work in I |