Show THE TIfE PANAMA CANAL Admiral Walker alker head of the Isthmian Canal Commission has not made a very convincing ng presentation pres pr- presentation pres- pres of of the reasons which induced him and and a 1 majority of his colleagues to change the report or oi orthe I the Commission from an unqualified recommendation tion of the Nicaragua route to a perfunctory recommendation recommendation recommendation rec rec- of that by way of the partially dug de Lesseps ditch In his testimony before the Senate Committee on Canals last Th Thursday Admiral Walker said that he had been brought to favor or the he Panama project on grounds of economy He then proceeded to explain in answer to questions that the Panama Canal notwithstanding the alleged work already done upon it would require two more years to complete than would the Ni Nicaragua a H He said also that the Panama line would involve feats of engineering upon the feasibility and success of of- which the engineers of the Commission were not agreed Finally he admitted that the Western end i of the Panama Canal would face the Doldrums through which all sail vessels would have pave to be betow tow towed d for five seventy or a a. hundred miles to escape the region of dead calm and get into a sailing breeze x If the Admirals Admiral's purpose was to show the inferiority inferiority in in- in-f in of the Panama proposition to the one generally gen gen- orally favored favored by the country it must be said that I he succeeded admirably but why then did he sign that supplementary report |