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Show STATE DEPARTMENT MAY IIANDLE CANAL OYSTER BAY, July 8. It is not un- tly tnat the administration- of af-ralnP af-ralnP connected with the construction 'ot ihe, Panama Canal may be trans-. trans-. TerreWfrom the War department to the EtatJ department. . Since Mr. Root Indies In-dies fled his acceptance of the Presidents Presi-dents tender" of the Secretaryship of 6tatt the President has had the matter mat-ter f the transfer tinder consideration, jlf " known that Secretary Taft would I . faite willing to be relieved of the responsibility attendant upon the Panama Pan-ama canal affairs. : . The appointment of Judge Magoon to be Minister of the United States to Pan--ma In connection with his office as Governor of the American tone on the Isthmus, naturally suggests the desirability desir-ability of placing both offices under the direction of the Secretary of State. Mr. Hoot is deeply Interested In the canal vork and already has devoted much thought to It. . , i |