Show 4 OF 1 MINORITY I I Lock Canal l Favored Because the President Wants That Type LONG REPORT SUBMITTED MATTER IT L Y BE FaRE THE SENATE MIlT nc ton toa oC eC a lock ock canal the Isthmus of o PaRa Panama Nl tM th ml Ui he Ut t OM a n canAls ls has drafted an exhaust ve e report which was suI to the senate enate by n rd On One Onet t the chie made macJe In of he lock M Is t t tie e act that congress intended that should Mould Ie e the type although althou h the authority to f was conferred upon the president the rhe minority says s The president h Ing taken the f and sf et the 18 canal has that it js is to construct a lock The d declares clarn that the only pre i is c 8 I shall annul amud the action of the president r 1 shaH simply hold its Ran hanIs s and allow he president to the power which las heretofore been conferred upon him 1 Minority of Engineers The canal type BY the minor minorIty Ity ef Cf the boaT board of c engineers the l canal which hi h Is the Ule type ra fa fator tor or by the minority of the senate own The repOrt u es that the plan Is well veU alance for it will take just about the tame lame time Ume to construct the dam lor fr the locks and build the locks az as it toes loes to Make the needed ned excavation the Culebra cut a period of not nore Un than seven Beven and a half years yeaTS Every I else elie to be three dams Lake Sees the dam and lock t tedro Pedro edro Mt cannot be completed well this time The cost of tie unal canI is ili This everything but the nd It of course Includes the equipment purchased ed and In for fer already made madeTh The Th central of n the plan Is the thelam thelam lam and locks Jocks at Gatun and the minority lays the evi evidence IS 18 that the dasi da will as a firM as the tAe ver st nr n bilk hUIs Testimony of engineers Is to r refute fute criticisms of tR the dam t to Locks Iw In answer to objections to the scheme r f na vw jeck in flight Ute the ml 1111 mys They h y are placed Immedi Hely t tnt the Vessel can move rom rem tM th water at bi highest level In one ock Immediately In the low level Jevel oC o the ext lext lock Locks thus arranged arran ed IR in flight r In il Steps Mops so to speak are welt well known vice f In lock on and no more morer r f au al than a single ingle lock Tn sea level canal says S the report will wUl wUlla la of O degrees curva cona ure Sues of twice th the length 15 as only curves of tI ij der degrees rh the length of the curves 11 the tle leek level leel canal Is only onh l Ij per nt of the total length h of the canal hile that of the sea level is JS 3 pM per cent md while bile the detree ot curvature 1 is eter In the loci loch canal than the sea kv l the curves cunes are al t Wholly In channels 1 IN and Alp f ft in width in which such curves cun have not ht he to Increase the ta den dan daners ers of 1 Dangers to te Lock Leek Canal Cana 1 Co the daner to the lock enal from kORi Malicious m mISchief and Oll in time ot of w war r the ass ays Js Is no for supposing that will not be accepted b by aU all ne na earth and that this would p f the sOt effective way of preventing Injun to the canal It is argued arguel that he se eVRI canal with its tidal Q k at atosa osa d Is narrow gorge through Cu Cuhra oo ra olf excellent opportunity or nr destruction DF by ives The dan danzer zer front from earthquakes js is not treated as a ens jIm 8 report In 10 show are nol of et ire ut at the i isthmus and aM that d riele t have never happened happe kt it lobat Estimates made tle by the majority u to the ess of ar the thc sea level Ival canal ue ae dIS ute by the minority which 8 t that t total co cost t will be about 1 lu In ItNa of j |