| Show I PRESIDENT T A AND U Ur r PANAMA MA AffAIRS Sends a iI M Ms t c to Congress That He lie Be lie Given Discretion FOR FEWER COMMISSIONERS Question of or Labor Gabor on Canul Canut Disclosed Ii of of or Chinese And Anil nd Japanese Coolies I Pre Moose HoO l lout vomit vent out In n m transmitting to Congress today the th first annual report of at the th Panama canal to together together gether with a 0 letter from Spoy S ey Taft relating to affairs recommends r that he be given Riven discretion ns liS thin president Is 18 with tho the re me of It o constructing oon time the canal The rho board of f canal he helIaN says lIaN should h he reduced tit to five or pre three members whose whoRe duties powers and salaries should hould assigned by hy the The rime presidents mes toes mesI Pose I concur with the secretory secretary of oC WAr tear In tho limo vIew lew that the time prof out provision of law which tho the work of ot building the hilts hns to lu bo ho dune clone only amity through u n 1 body of oven coven members Is Inelastic and clumsy Actual experience hex haw convinced continued me am hut It Il wilt will be 1 Impossible to tho time Pant bust UA t unit end most mORt effective under the prel by liv hv Tim The general plans Plane for far the work worl orl must be ue agreed upon with tho the old of at atthe the time lif heist t of ot the tho country who should net act tin its an nn advisory or bourd The engineers should not be bo put on tho the which should be he only UK as nn an executive metre m mint meat nt for or the Iha stud administrative tive Wok The actual of ot Ills the plum on by th the lime after receiving shoes Ions of lit the th rn toast must bo Pt ilone o me by Ity nn 11 nee t r l u und tumid we the now havo hae nn nil engineer It U IH Is In III my lily Judgment therefore to 10 tho the executives executive choice of ot to tn of ot tho the engineers earls conn of lit time tho army multi and navy Ito tibia 11 that tho the limn a us as administrator of or tho Iho ital ei t ml m should also aiM serve lere fie n to a aIn In his hll letter fIey Taft says nays tho time commission slon him datum dono a n great doal deal of ot preparation but hul It Il will require yet It to restore proper conditions for fOl canal building The rho secretary expresses limo tho opinion that lint ll It may he be necessary to Increase front from 10 to 16 Ii per ler cent the ruto rate of ot duty duly that may bo ho collected by on goods destined for the canil zone zene and points out that tho monopoly now no ex exl Isling l on nn tobacco will expire In and will not limit bo ho renewed go sa that the market will bo he opened to the United States lie He that It will not be ouy o n recurs Femurs nil all tho the laborers attired ns nit the alto governor of to consent to tho the comma taking laborers except on Oil onn n II hood hond of ot five 1110 pounds sterling RIt for tor each laborer to protect tho thin Jamaican KOV gov 0 eminent tho the maintenance under the tho poor loor laws of at time the families left loft be behind mind hind f Con Voluntary Immigration of labor Is I and the tho hopes hoped labor may mil also ho ba obtained In Offers have 1110 been mode made to supply on trial truth 1000 Chi Chinese Chinese nese lIea anti a 11 similar number of ot nest nl 1 coolies to time tho th Ixl contract be bo between tween thin tho th Panama company nn the tho Man com con puny the latter exclusive right to Issue through bills of ot lading on busl fleas between h ten Stun San Francisco I and tumid New Now NewYork NewYork York the tho secretary says he thinks thInk this contract Is I Invalid under tinder the tho laws of ot Colombia Colombin III and of at Panama hut hul at nt any Tate rule he la is sure euro that the United States cannot with due regard to toIto its Ito men policy make Itself n a party to summit such a n contract He ne has di dl directed acted the Ihl commission to 10 servo serve notice on the Pacific Mall Steamship company of ot the Intention of ot the railroad company to lo withdraw tromp from the tha contract at nt tho end of ot six mouths months Tho The report nays says that tho tin development of tho the final plans plain for both the deep deepwater deepwater water channel the thu Inner harbor at lit Mite cither end of tho limo canal Including about a mile of ot tho the canal line will be he con concluded eluded within the time n next two or three months menthe Tho Time commission feels that tho Iho gov government 10 which now limn owns more moro titan than 98 08 per cent of ot the limo shares of the Panama railroad should own tho the noire entire capital The report says tho time present steamship equipment will bo be Inadequate to meet Inlet the demands of ot passenger and amid freight during active construction of tha tho ennui mammal and und I imbue for new ships have been blon ordered Tho Tim first annual report of Davis governor of tho time canal zone gone com corn comin in R on the high telegraph and rail railroad rood road r o a l rates on Oil tho time I r lie Ho advises making the railroad and atmil telegraph linn line linna linea a II government line lint and MB says that If It Ito o t v It the tho government would go out of tho the steamboat business and would reduce rates across tl tM time Isthmus fiO per cent centI I competition would reduce steamship rates between New York anti Colon mid anil San co and Panama |
