Show SENATE FIXING UP lip CANAL BILL Right to Require Pull Full and Complete Reports Will Wll Be Reserved by C Cess s I I TYPE NOT YET DETERMINED I COMMITTEE HAS NOT FINISHED ITS WORK II I I 1 Washington March UH the type of the isthmian canal anal and the I method of yet et undetermined undetermined mined the senate committee on Inter oceanic oceanIa canals has under consideration 8 5 bill bili to provide for the government f the canal zono and other othor matters such as legislative control The draft which is i before the committee in the form of ofa ofa a confidential print was prepared by Senator Kittredge and Is very simIlar to the one he be offered a year ago which failed to pass because ot of a contra over the size and personnel of the I canal commission I I All Rights Reserved The bill authorizes the presIdent to delegate to the commission the tho power i to make and enforce regulations necessary sary for the ot of the tho zone i but reserves to both the president and either heuse of congress the rIght to require full and complete reports from the commission or annually or at any other period The same Bame methods of estimating expenditures and appropriations are arc applied to canal work as are required of the various executive departments The offices or of adminIstration shall be located and maintained in the canal zone and It i Is required that so far as practicable the work of the commission shoJI shall be concentrated there The fed federal end eral laws Jaws relating to outsIde the boundarIes of the United States are applied to the in the canal zone but the bill biU loaves leaves for consideration of the commission the increase that be allowed in inthe inthe the case of clerks exclusively employed within the zone Separate Accounting Separate accountS accounts are required of funds of the Panama Railroad corn oom Pliny and the expenditures for the ad administration admInistration ministration of the canal zone and the construction of the canal All fran franchises franchises or concessions must be approved by the pr president ident but ress retains the powers of modification or revocation tion The circuit court of appeals for the Sec Second nd judicial distri t is given juris jurisdiction jurisdiction diction over all civil cases appealed form courts ot of the zone to be established established under the general authority given by bp the president to the commit committee tee Senator Kittredge also has submit submitted ted to the committee a bill amending the act providing for the construction i of the tho canal so as to decrease the corn mIson to three members |