Show TUB THE ISTHMIAN CANAL v We Te are more than glad to learn that the threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened deadlock over the isthmian canal question in is in a fair way to be avoided What That be- be Congress gress of the Nicaragua the respective advocates ad t n and Panama a routes in the Senate and the facing facing- b ways bolh-ways both of the Walker commission a few days if the whole canal ng it look looked a uncomfortably as might aught be killed as fal far as the present prop proposition session was concerned A compromise measure has been introduced by Senator Spooner which it is said has the support Roosevelt and his advisers It provides that of nf Mr lr L president shall have authority to purchase the theT the Uima canal anal million dollars conditioned T satisfaction with the title and his convicT conviction conviction his bs mi T- T Tr tion upon r that no diplomatic tic or OL other difficulties will willrie from the a acquisition conditioned also upon rie with the concessions which Colombia Colom Colom- satisfaction u tion his bis PT Sil j 1 4 be willing to gr grant nt and 1 that the total cost bia ha may the vio work will m not w exceed one hundred o of f completing dollars Any of these condi- condi an and d thirty thirty- thirty five tile the million panama project t. t is t to 0 b be e d dropped LOpped falling o and in that event the President is authorized and dIrected directed ted to select the Nicaragua route In either case ten million dollars is proposed to be he appropriated appropriated appropriated to begin the work President Roosevelt has pas been very unwilling to have Congress unload this grave and great re reo upon him but as there seems to be no other means by which legislation can be secured it itis itis itis is stated that he lie has reluctantly consented to stand in the gap realizing that the American people with almost complete unanimity demand an isthmian canal and will be neither patient nor quiescent much longer if they do not get one Unless the opponents of any waterway to conned connect con con- ned the the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean are stronger in in Congress than we e fancy they are this compromise proposition will be likely to carry The country demands the Canal The Tile route which it shall follow is a a. matter of minor consideration |