Show IT DID au AWAIT DICI ION contractor states that he has gotten together a combination of the greatest contractors in the world washington feb 6 by noon tomorrow william J oliver jr of knoxville tenn who was the lowest bidder under the proposal ml for digging panama canal by byr t contract an I 1 who has form forma j a company of contractors known as the panama con it ruction company will know when he may expect a final decision mr fr oliver called at the office oc of the isthmian canal commission toda iad submitted his bid su in accordance ti the tile requirements of the sent in the absence of chairman ahoi ats me documents were delivered to rich ird rd R rogers general counsel of he be commission A number num berof of papers were submitted including jn not only the elie list of those whom mr aar oliver proposes to aasc associate with him in the actual work of construction but also the names 0 oi the stockholders and the amounts subscribed by each the original figure submitted by bv mr oliver per cent at 0 tho the estinia estimated ted cost of construction wag was adhered to in the papers filed today secretary taft ta ft said this afternoon that he would tonight receive a report from mr ift rogers oh the papers filed and that in the morning he ho would take the whole matter up wit the president and make the announce announcement as stated secretary tatt taft said he did not wish it to be understood that at noon tomorrow mr lr oliver would get his final answer but he be would know at th thai L time when jv helhe he may expect it at the war department tonight it t was said that the closest investigation would be made regarding the stockholders holders hol Alers and in fact everybody interested te in the company after air aw interview with secretary taft mr oliver said that he had gotten together a combination of the tile greatest contractors in the world while I 1 am not inclined to discuss dIscus 2 the matter he said inasmuch as it Is IF now before the secretary of war yet I 1 feel that I 1 have dis disappointed some people who thought I 1 could not make good regarding the question of labor he lie felt no uneasiness he said wo we will be able to get all the men we want the sanitary conditions on ov the isthmus are well nigh perfect ani laborers will not hesitate to go there on that account names of directors richard R rogers general counsel for the isthmian nn canal commission tonight made public the names ot those constituting the board of directors and a list of the stockholder i of the panama construction company the directors ai aie 0 W J oliver knox ville tenn charles H ackert ington D C patrick J walsh davenport iowa robert russell lynell burg va P T brennan washington D 1 C john B mcdonald cDonald I ne new ark john pierce new york george georg H harriman new now york R A C smith new york george sayre new now york and george geofge pierce frankfort maine and robert A Gh chester ester washington D C each of the directors subscribed for fifty sharey and paid in when the company was incorporated in albany the articles of incorporation call for fifty thousand shares of stock at a par value of each making a total of As required by the government of this amount will be represented by the bond which the successful bidder bidd er is required to give and the remaining is to ho be represented by actual cash or securities of the cash capital ond halt of the amount must be paid in when the contract is signed and the second must he be payable upon demand stockholders the stockholders who have subscribed to the paid up capital stock in ad j to the paid in by the 12 directors when the copany was incorporated and the amount of stock taken bv by each follows R A C smith john 13 mcdonald cDonald INI john peirce frederick K stevens W J oliver this with the CO GO makes a total of stock payable upon demand has been subscribed for as ai follows R A C smith john B D mcdonald 11 john peirce F C stevene stevens W J oliver P J walsa it A chester C L ackert P J brennan drennan and robert russell total the tb corporations bond Is given in six surety companies which also assume an additional liability of to protect the government from loss in case one of the bonding companies should fail fall the gators offer to furnish additional bondsmen it tho government decides that any of the companies have assumed larger responsibility than they tily ca can n well carry mr oliver has delivered to the of ficiala of the canal commission cerrill till i cates showing that deposits have been made to the credit ortho of the panama cota cob st ruction company in the following new york trust companies trust company of amelica Ame Amei ilca ica knickerbocker er trust company Colon colonial lal trust company windsor trust company total this thi amount will be turned over to tho government when the contract for constructing the tile panama ama canal is Js signed A sour stomach stoma cn a bad breath a pasty complexion and other consequences of 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