| Show ARGUMENTS fOR CANAL ANAL Majority Report of Senate Com Corn Committee Lays Much Stress on Earthquake Danger LOCK TYPE MORE EXPOSED Other Kind Simpler and More Economical to Operate And Maintain Would 0 I I I Ol Take Much Longer to tu Hut Co Cot Cost t Would bo hue 1 ConId bl ll s J I Ii i 0 1 o 17 That the time earth earthquake earthquake quake which San Francisco was WIS an amu Important factor In determining tho time vote ole of o the time senate committee on In favor of or a sea sealevel sl level loel type Ine Is IR apparent from main tho time tact fact I that n a I feature of ot the majority report Is a n discussion of ot time the effect such an nn orth wave We might have on 01 locks lock and andI dams I a IJ The Time majority repot report t In hI favor of a ii 1 rca rei level canal was wal submitted today by b Senator I On Oil 01 time tho subject of ot danger unger from earthquake on 01 tho time isthmus till and the time possible effect on the two to types tyleR ot of canal proposed tho tue report says pays FoS PI EARTHQUAKE The Tue recent calamity that over overwhelmed whelmed one OM of ot our great cities has luas caused many lan The TIme as nH assertion Irton that any 11 particular spot Sot In imi tho time tropics Is exempt from room all 11 danger from such Huch of ot nature lature as ns re recently reo visited California or wrought great cent havoc near ear Charleston S C CIn CIn In l 6 or changed the taco face of ot nature In southeast rn mu Missouri 1 near tile the of century would not bo hazarded by any IHO man lan That the time of ot Panama Is II not muot exempt i conclusively appears mind and Ind we can have no guaranty that the time canal zone will willIn wi wIllin In time the future bo be exempt from such LOCKS MOST J The Tho ho that would ho most exposed to Injury Injun by tIme the of oC an aum In earth wave wae or violent movement of or the tho earths surface are arc tho tIm locks lock pro by h tho time minority whose walls wails many hundreds of ot feet fest or even een two 01 or three thousand feet long nt at t Gatun would ut at 1 least some of ot them thor bo be more moro than 75 15 feet teet high ant and entirely unsupported IU Up ported on one side save ave for tor a u part of ot the height on by water If I these walls should ha he moved at all ni tho the natural and probable result would their leak leaking mug ing In and ald to so 10 prevent the closing of ot the gates Kates on hand would be ho useless u for tor no noone one uno Intes cub could guess the time extent of ot the time move moe movement ment lent coul lImit Hut IleAR the time most likely effect of such shock would ho bo the fracture of ot these locks In repairing of ot which much time months or years might be re me required reo I and thus Ihus cause causa clur Interruption of ot or tho time abandonment of ot the DAM DAt AT f The minority suggests that the tho damn dam am nt at Gamboa Included in the plan of ot tho the board would bo be as os likely to sustain Injury from real such convulsion as M tho the structure above mentioned This Is U not tho fact The dam Is built bui In 11 IL rock iek foundation reinforced with strong walls and buttressed at cither wih end with wih walls wals of rock It I Is a I structure enl the least likely to be affected of any superimposed disturbance on o tile the In earths surface surf t and no record Is If uni In any an similar structure b beIng ln permanently p ti Injured under similar cir clr circumstances Tho The side aide slopes of ot the Culebra cut would bo be no more mOTO likely to b be disturbed than are tho the nearly vertical al slopes near the tho divide that have vert never ne er been bren affected An All n earth damn dam on out 01 an In base buo I as ns proposed by the minority might ml ht ba ho boO Insured fissured O If It the time earthquake passed time the locality and nun It If a 1 crack In the dam or orits orIts its It base basc should open opel the dam would go o I out the lock drain drin and the canal call be ruined DAMAGE AT SAX SAN flANCISCO At Sin Saim R I Francisco where re the water vater pipes were vere broken the disaster was WI were greatly augmented by this cause for forthe forthe the water could not be held hold In the pipes and directed on tho the name flames What would happen to the aqueduct con conduits duits pipes piles amol valves vahe burled burle In the concrete dul walls wails used u erl for filling and emptying the tho lock cannot be well wel lured After reviewing the and the messages of time the th on the subject of ot the tue canal canut the Iho report says a 1 that It Is II due dle to the executive branch of ot til government that that tM uncertain uncertainties ties t confronting the time president pr as I to tu his tes p powers In the be settled and of ot affirmatively once and amid andor for or all al I b by Ul the onY natIonal authority I competent to tn pass paM upon the tle question queston tho tue national legislature DIVISION AMONG AiON The division unions Rmon experts us mis IN to tn tho the host hl 1 type of Is I treated by b the which says AI that lust the time con Coil conclusion hue has been heen reached that limit tho t h lue fol tul lowing propositions are arc irrefutable That the Ideal Is U ono omie at Ut lt HIM level 1011 that Its construction would bo be at nt tended with wih itil no 10 more probably with wih less hazard than 01 with wih locks and amid dams on doubtful foundations that time the the Heu sealevel canal Is safer lter and 1111 moio mort convenient mit than thAI one with lh locks that It I would our hike but htmL little Itc longer lon er time to loud build that It Is II the thc simpler and amud tile niece more ore economical 1 In operation anui maintenance The ThA estimates of ot tIme tho minority aim the majority of ot tho timo board of en rum Il ou oil 01 the time time that would be hI te me 11 to 10 excavate time the types of ot canal aro are reviewed and amid tho the major majority ity report concludes that the time set sea HIl level Icel cutlet canal would not nol require mute moie than two or three years r urs more mure than the time lock type s MADE IDE LIGHT LIHT OF 01 flik encountered In II tho opera operation tion tou of tha tle canal are arc are made mantle light of ot by I tho tile report which says time the darn dam would bo be ready to control time tile Hoods floods before lIme tho excavation Is IH halt half finished and the thom hal bal balance once alIce ot of the me excavation In the und 1111 omit below helo aea ea level could go on oil 01 Interruption When the I Is subdued omit and all controlled and amid nl tho time len set ea level canal mute made Its Il Ute use Ue will be rd ed e with 11 hue o morn more ilsk thin than equal eull Ball Balling Mi sat ing Ilg distance In tho time oceans A 4 chapter of o time the report Is I devoted to tn the locks and darns damn t m proposed ell by the flue mi minority loIl report of time the consulting engi engineers le rp and Ild these c are inserted asserted to be hc an no 11 element of danger The Time various acci accidents ned dents to which such uch mechanism oUght might b I bt subject are recounted and the time to me 10 port asserts that these hazards can calm enl bo ho avoided avoldt by h the tIme small 1 mi 1 sacrifice of ot lime necessary to the tho construction ot of tho the sea level lovoi COST OF 01 MAINTENANCE Time The claim Is II mimic made lade by b the HIP that ships of o all 11 classes could be passed through the sealevel canal In him II eight houis houll and amid a n half time tle would be he consumed in ill pacing ship ahll ome through tim rough locks alone The Time cost of ot annual main maintenance Is estimated at nt OOOO for forthe forthe the time sea level ant and for the tho lock Jock type ADVANTAGES Discussing D the tie advantage of the time sea sn sealevel sealevel level canal to the country countr controlling it In II time tle of war the report says liS I If it free from ruin nil all 11 obstacles to tn quick transit warships ot of average Iver size I moving in 11 one ono direction moult deal clear en I be he passed from ocean to 10 ocean c In lit less leRK than Luau a I day dayAll All ali Al naval and comb com commercial mercial masters of thin tho great reat national and private vessels of oC the tho world are Ire almost to n u man maim opposed unutterably to the Introduction of or any ammy In lock to lift ll vessels overe the tho low that flint na mia nature la laturo turo ture has left for tor us to let 11 remove The majority argues arRU S that thul an all ni enemy could destroy destro a lock canal much Ilch ens easier ier ler than thul a it I sea mica level leel canal with wih explosives explosives ULTIMATE FINAL l JAL COST Tho ultimate final cost of time the sum pen loyal level canal as its estimated by h tho majority Is II S while the limo cost of the tho lock canal Is regarded as ns uncertain The Th of ot the time hoar board of n consult consulting consultIng ing lag engineers estimated the cost coat at ut Jl and to this the majority says say should be he le added tho time Interest on 01 the extra cost of maintenance the ex expenses of ot clearing the tho titles to lie tho 1800 acres of ot land that tint would ho bo sub RUh submerged merged by time the central ce lake proposed ell ellb by b time the lock plan lilan which It Is I estimated would make the total cost COAt at mit ft least Time The cost of ot trans transforming runs forming tho the lock kick plan Into a I sealevel canal after attel the tho former Is completed Is estimated at In conclusion tho the majority II says pays Your committee o feels feela entirely con cnn confident Ident that Hunt the board of ot consulting en selected to study thin problem has his submitted tf a n plan lian that responds In Iii II every over respect to 0 tIme the condition stated above anti and that the time sea level canal can call be realized In 10 or II 1 years el at a acost acost acost cost not to exceed above that thit thit required by b the construction of tt tho time minority canal proposed pollo ed by ly II time the |
