| Show TO T THE BUS BLAS SAN ROUTE Washington lI Feb Keb T d OAt At the conclusion Claim slon of routine business li hi elmue I 3 In lit tho the Senate Senah today a 11 bill declaring the flue International railway bridge over the St IH Lawrence river neat near N Y V a n law lawful lu ful Cut structure wan passed d Mt Mr Scott hop Hell tit of West CS Virginia edict called up 1111 ill and had read a n resolution which he be offered several l days ago pro providing viding iding for tor the appointment of ot u a coin com of ut experts to tu examine what Is known as IS the San HI as all or 01 bay roue for tor an Isthmian waterway t and ul to report to lJ th UI tho coat ot nn ii tuh t y that route Voute He lIe said Rall that nearly one fourth of tho the sum sunt n to ron con construct a canal by I any of ot tile the routes pro NO proposed proposed posed pos already had hail brett been expended In an all endeavor to a Pod find a fL suitable route for tor foran an all canal but confronted as ns Congress was tas by Ii u II proposed lion of ot nearly for tor the UI building of an ull waterway It was tho the duty of or prudent men to care carefully alI fully Investigate every possible 1108 route lie He any allY Intention to obstruct oh the this consideration of ot a n canal bill bl l or to delay the lie building of ot tho canal C nal Itself lI elt but he h maintained the lie question lUI or of route was wall stilt still doubtful After Atter thorough Investigation he wan wall as convinced that lint the tue Suit Hl lime s route collie met practically every lIt of It till the lie proposed water waterway way vay but JUt because boon e the adoption Ildo of that route I ute Involved the thrIving of ot n 1 i tunnel through the of lit a n mountain range large e to admit of or the he passage of or any ship shill allnut tho th route rattle hull had been regarded n o as T Impracticable i Personally he ho was all convinced thuR such Burh n a tunnel could be j constructed at a 1 rea reasonable reasonable ble cost COlt Mr Scott explained that hunt the t Sun Saul Ulna Iliac route connected the lie two tun oceans from flom the bay of lu lIngo in the thi gulf of orSon SOil San litas on the tho Atlantic sine Hide to Pearl Icart isi Inland and tutu harbor In III the lii gulf BUlf of Panama J 1011 on the PaUo side Ide nf of tho the I Isthmus In Including eluding the tbell live utile mile tunnel th thy ennui canal l would be Le bo Iro thirty miles long luM Ho He 31 salt said that the of the tho Semi Ban Ulan flies route had hili excited the th enthusiasm of at all nil en engineers engineers i who had huil Investigated Ine them Ho HI i believed that power made It entirely practicable by br this route roule to I tow throUgh the canal by clot elec electric clottile tile trolley He Ile thought It U Improbable that sailing Hailing would bf hI able to navigate guy any all other of the tM tt proposed routes TIll The route lie III proposed he lie on Id offered great treat natural antI and commercial advantages He lid did not believe bellev any anyone nn anyone one would question the lie desirability of ot a IL r 1 S by the San Sen Bias DIAl route If It the l 1 which It Involved could be con coned ili ed and he hj hind had no doubt this could I be b d ue lIe He referred to the I lI sInt mu Int fit At Arlberg and andon on tunnels ax as daring and am N ot of f modern engineering lie Ho Hoboth il both hoth American and log authorities 8 to show that flint the lie instruction of or the San Ban Hiss tunnel was wan wasS S lii It practical helical al r 01 tilt till following reasons Mr Scott ill ed tho the Son San lilas route was vas the tho ml My feasible and practical tea sea level route ili healthy location ltD T T Its harbor T TT T 41 4 Is total of locks locka 5 G The Thie possibility of ot working gangs of tacit men night and day In the wet wel und nod dry dr seasons Its It II good sanitary conditions fi Tho very er Important consideration that lint by b this title tOtite 1 U l and amid no other sailing nailing esseln could bo ire towed tower by hy electric pow Jow power power er ur by IW night as welt well an as by tiny day thus effecting a 11 great Hrent saving of ot Into and aud expense Tho economical maintenance of the canal when completed S Tho T permanency of ot ltd Its and the absence of ot earth embankment i 9 The desirable d act tott fact that It can bo ho constructed within three or nt at most lIve tl Ie yea yeats IM Mr Scott concluded 1 by IJ strongly I big ing the he th I adoption of ot Ills his hi resolution say IlaY Ing log that hut ho lie wished to a bo be convinced of or the lie practicability or Impracticability nf ot lf a ship iu Ip tunnel had hall submitted his as OH n II pure business lion tion At t the Ih conclusion of Mr Scotts BroUs I Mr Mm h Morgan n chairman of ut the I committee on ott canals moved that the offered by Mr Scott be o referred to that commit tee te Ho lie sold the committee had lint General Gen Oen eral Iral Porrell Forrell the promoter of the San Sau I unit route before It I i and the Iho I I or had hOlt flins It and anti the matter had hall been JIIn r refet red ton to subcommittee I which hat I In lie Ho pointed out that hint Co lombia would oppose opo e the lie adoption of dt the time Suit San liias route as liS that list would destroy troy both the Panama canal ranal tho the Panama railway company CillO n It Jt would could be Ill a hopeless task he hI thought to convince Colombia that the tho Suit San Ulas DlaB route would be b desirable one nite proposed ro However he lit h said Mid the lie toni com committee om e wan its IR Investigating Ine thoroughly all nih matters pertaining to an sit isthmian canal and nut would lay nil feet facts before the Sell Sen Senate ate titO Without objection the lie resolution was unit referred to tho the committee on Inter oceanic canals T |
