Show TAFT CONFERS S OVER PANAMA AFFAIRS Secretary of War Says Dirt Dir is Flying Fast on Big Canal Washington May 18 Secretary Secretary Taft Tar returned to the tho city today and ha had two conferences with wih tho the President In tho the morning and In the time evening sOwing to the fact that two of ot the questions Involved Involve have ha e a 0 state department depart depart- ment mont relation It would woul be necessary for tor Secretary Taft th the President an and Secretary Secretary Sec See Root to confer before announcements announcements announce announce- ments are mn made e. e It I Is well wel known that there has been constant friction be between be be- tween the Republic of Panama and the parent Republic of Colombia Colombia The Time United States as special sponsor and practical suzerain of tho time canal zone tool took tho the side of Panama In tho the dispute which resulted to the time marking of the time boundaries It I Is officially stated that this condition has hns ceased to be acute acuto an arid and that tho treaties trentes between the time United States States' and Panama and the latter latter latter lat lat- ter and Colombia will wi complete an amicable amicable amicable ami ami- cable settlement Question luc of or Commerce Another question queston related d to time the right of ot the time United States under perpetual leases of or the canal zono to so administer adminis adminis- ter It that tho commerce of the zone be a menace to the commerce 0 of the time rest of the Republic of Panama Panama A part of at Secretary duty while on oil the tho Isthmus was as to Inspect tho the canal Ito IIo IQ spoke o in high praise today to the time President and later to tho time newspaper newspaper news news- paper men of time the great progress made made In tho the excavations According to Mr Taft the tho dirt is flying from n end of oC the canal to tho the other There Thera i IB Is of ot course no flo progress on tho the Jock lock t b b been en made att d tu m the danat nal from n. n sudden o n overflows by ty the theca Cen cation ca on of a n 0 of ot sufficient capacity to divert the tha water from I its natural course across tho the canal |