Show HAMMERS OUT FOR WALLACE washington dec aj in making public all the testimony taken pester day by tho senate committee on ap la relation to the panama canal emergency bill tho senate has disclosed in greater detail the ork oin the isthmus than has been given to au the reports canal coat or others authorized to discus caamal affairs the testimony taken during the meeting covers 88 printed pages devoted almost wholly to tho examination of secretary of jarlath War lath theodore P shouts chairman commission J B bishop secretary and D W rosa general purchasing of fleer it developed during the festa many of secretary tatt and mr llosa that 98 per cent of the materials purchased by the commission were chipped from tho united states and of tho 2 per cent of foreign the amount was secured on tho isthmus fe j it was a toted that there areathus area tous men employed on the isthmus in canal work but that none of chese Is now engaged in excavating tho work of digging the canal wab stopped when mr stevens went to the isthmus in july last as chief mr taft said eliat of the men were employed in the sanitation department aad in track work construction 0 buildings in machine works and putting together the equipment and getting ready for the work of excavating continuing sir tatt said air stevens states and I 1 think M shouts agrees with him that forme engineer wallace made a mistake in expending aitt he did expend for actual excavation work in the culebra cut it was not done for tho purpose of excavation alt nought it did accomplish to the extent to which there was excavation work which may not have to bo done again but it was done for the of making estimates as to the cost and mr stevens thinks that the material abich was removed was deposited at places from which it wll have to be again removed and that estimates based upon thew manta therefore are estimates based upon what do not assimilate to tha that t actual work lo 10 be done so hat that t it really was not sample nork asked senator hale no sir replied mr taft oa 01 courno ithe gunpat problem here is nut excavation the great problem Is transportation and the disposing ot tho dirt dirt taken from culebra cut has to be hauled by rail from four to fifteen miles mr then said of tho wok done by mr wallace lie selected the aas work ai hi top ot the cir where he flad hauls he worked at the nearest place he could and misled himself and othe people by taking the cost per cubic yard thus arrived at during the favourable favour able circumstances aa being tha unit cost at which he could do the entire ork for that reason his work was practically wasted I 1 it was stated by mr that under air wallaces direction dirt wai 1 during the dry season at a cost of 43 cents per cubic yard bui that the cost was increased to a yard during the wet season members of the committee express ed surprise atthe great difference mr said aaman AA Maa I 1 there would not i vallace had properly ba tracks so that when abo wet season came his cars would mt gei ost he trach so much |