Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-11-27 | Page 6 | Committee to Visit Panama Canal Zone

COMMITTEE TO VISIT PANAMA CANAL ZONE s WASHINGTON t tTO Nov Xo At 27 t At tho tiro first fint t. t m meeting cf the house committee on eu iI interstate tr and foreign commerce the suc suggestion estion will ill bo be made Blade that the tho com corn committee visit hit the isthmian canal ennuI zone this thit sv winter r. r Several matters o of importance affecting affecting affect affect- affect ing int the government of the zone probably probably ably will come como before congress at next session ion and as the interstate and foreign for for- ei eign commerce committee has full jurisdiction jurisdiction juris juris- diction n over oer new legislation for that territory it is thought wise that the entire membership acquaint it itself elt with recent developments dc there It has bas been five fio ye years us u's since the committee visited the zone zone When Whon congress adjourned at atthe atthe atthe the clo o of last session it was the in in- that both t the e n appropriation I committee ommittee and the interstate commerce commission ion visit isit the zone zono this Ulis fall but the election ejection interfered with this arrangement arrangement ar ar- und and none of the members of the former committee will go o to tho the isthmus isthmus- this winter By arranging for forr fora forra a LL government vessel to call for the members of tho the interstate commerce commission commission at some Romo southern i port probably probably ably Miami Fla and t iff to return them there it is believed that tho trip could be accomplished before tho the new year