Show PROSPECT N NOT T AllURING ONE Difficulty Diff MayBe Experienced 1 in j Getting Gelling Coolie Labor for Canal CHINESE HAVE BEEN THERE COMMISSION EXAMINING THE PROPOSALS Washington Oct 5 The officers of the isthmian canal commission are busy busyE examining E the proposals recently sub submitted submitted by contracting firms for fui furnish furnishIng nish ing Chinese Chirpe labor for work on In the canal at t Panama Because of the peculiar conditions surrounding tho th importation and employment of aliens in this work complicated in part by the adjustment I Q some international features s which probably will arise weeks must elapse e before b r any conclusions ions ons are readied reached and the th contract awarded Chinese Had Experience Some Rome doubt Is L o expressed presed C whether contractors will b be able allO 11 10 to carry out IUt any which h may be awarded for supplying coolie lobor Preferably because of climatic conditions ns the isthmian isthmian mian commission desires that any an la borers bo ers sent to 1 I Iia isthmus shall come om from froni the southern provinces S of China In n that thet received at the legation l show that not Jot a sin single pie gle gl Chinese ChInee e newspaper n favors favor the th fini ini gration of to i as the th experiences of who went nt then ther for fr the thc French 1 Canal Camol company are arc still I f I eli esh e h in the minds rinds of the th Most of Them Died I T Tb Chinese were wei eri to o Hh i And iid the conditions then th and un it is said saie that t about Th i per Jer cent of tho those thoe e who wh went vent ent lher thero died This mortality vu Ue largely largy lar ch to the unhealthy sanitary dings then theu prevailing n l the th Isthmus which however have June n 1 jf I improved under the l administration of affairs from fron Chinese Chin se residents in ill Peru San Sar and at Panama have hae beer been f sit fat at to the government at Peking ask jug ing jn that it IL refuse its Us sanction Sa to any roo to tc permit contract c f act laborers i t t fco o from China to Panama Thus far however howe Sr the Chinese authorities have hav entirely neutral in the mat nt mati i tr r and h have v not 1111 made any auy au TC teut tj OO the Once Before Several years ago the tiie were wert sounded founded by b the state department nent as to thi ir attitude toward sending coolie Ia la h pur r to Panama to which a polite but unfavorable reply was received Since Sice Vie tie t lC present situation has arisen how no c r no representations have been i by the fhe state department on the th subject in any all r form The suggestion lis hs been made that if it the Chinese go goe e interposes an objection the contractors may resort to the Philip pines junes or oi to the Straits Settlement over ove V the Chinese government has no nl jurisdiction |