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Show Looking Into the Panama Canal. The canal commission, under the chairmanship off Admiral Walker, baa been for some weeks Investigating the status of the Panama canal, despite the hitch in Colombia's ratification. The termination of tills month will see the -labors- of the commission, practically completed. The members have inspected inspect-ed the route, wharfs, standing machinery, machine-ry, conditions of plimate and necessary sanitary arrangements to make it possible pos-sible for Americans to work on the great waterway ; without committing suicide the fate i of laborers of the French company, when kari-karl waa a frequent occurrence. The Colombians have not been allowed by the obstructionists obstruc-tionists to forget the British occupation occupa-tion of Egypt, which ensued fropi the construction of the Suez canal, and the analogy is not thrown away on the minds of the people. In view, of the " opposition. President Marroquln will ' probably not call a special session ot the Colombian congress, so that the treaty will hardly be considered before the next regular session In July. Th President says it will be hazardous to reassemble the Colombian members-"till members-"till the precise psychological moment , arrives for favorable action." It has been suggc3ted thst as the country Is de facto mnder military law the PresI- ; dent may ratify, with the consent of ' his ministers, ignoring Congress. Col-Iter's Col-Iter's Weekly. .. |