The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-12
EARLY VOTE ON CANAL TREATY Day Will Be Set at MOn-
 days Session. MORGAN WILL SPEAKAGAIN Final Deliverance on Subject
 by Alabamian. Those Moral Questions. Work of Construction on the
 Isthmian Waterway
 is Begun.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Coloreda Building,

WC0h ing to get vote on the Panama canal treaty.. A day certain will be set in executive session Monday next, About all the speeches that are to be made have been delivered, except that Senator MOT gan has a final deliverance incubating. Democrats, of the Senate have agreed that the distinguished Alabama father of fsthmian canal legislation shall have ann pie opportunity to say what he wishes.
 As soon as the ratification of the, treaty Is completed then will begin stretch of delay in negotiating contracts for the building of the canal. The commission is to be appointed, the French property formally to be acquired, and work to be advanced upon certain lines that are es- sential preliminaries to the general con- tract. This will consume the time while the new commission is considering a plan of canal construction, shaping specified tons and giving prospective bidders chance to study what propositions they contemplate making.
 These things will take about a year. But more important than any other pre- liminary work perhays is the sanitary plan which must be extensive, thorough The new commission will employ one of the most distinguished sanitary engineers in the United States and probably in con Junction with the Marine Hospital and Public Health Services will institute a comprehensive system for keepinG the region free from pestilence.
 Dangers From Epidemic.
 It is pointed out that with a-low class of 1aboring population summoned from other tropical countries, conditions would be ripe for such an interinixture of infec- tons as1to be extremely dangerous. A spod sharp outbreak pg Asiastlc eholera oh the isthruus at any station of the work would delay comnletior a year besides greatly iHcEeasing the difaculty in set " 1vpitn sii M shs ships plying between shose ports ana our own coast cities during the scpRat Fpntions peeind it tss teik that the dsti s&t 6f flAnAinittinB tropical dfseases would be very great and therefore, oii our own atc0uft lutiste as much as 6tts Of con siderasiofi for the health of the isthmus, the most rigid measures of sanitation will be adopted and enforced.
 The American Public Health Associa- ton has been assured by those interested in canal construction that this will be the case."
 get to work quite so soon as the old com mission would, were 1t reappoirted as q body, since new men will have to make preliminary studies, to certain extent reach definite conclusion independent of the reports of their predecessors.
 While 1t is not expected that the con! clusions of a new body would differ greatly, there is always aedistinction in the scrutiny that is given to a study which is proposed as a basis for legisla- ton and one upon which actual work will proceed. ..
 Even with this, delay. if it may be so A. t. H.A will be in operation eight years from the day that the Senate ratihes the treaty and perhaps earlier.
 The decision to regard the Spooner act as applicable to the new conditions saves some time at the capitol and makes the ratification the last substantial step be- fore the appointment of the commission.
 It Is believed that this enterprise will attract. q great deal of American atten- tion, perhaps dividing with the St. Louis fair. the Asiatic war, and the Presiden- tial campaign, the interest of the news paper reading public for the summer
 At all events, the coming months seem likely to be not lacking in topics of com handing importance.
 The President evidently does not ex- pect an early adjournment of Congress, judging from remarks he has made to callers. In talking to the Virginia dele gation that called upon him to ask him to visit Jamestown, the President said that Congress would probably have him upon it's hands, at the time the celebra- tion is to be had at Jamestown, May 13. and for that reason he could not deter mine whether he would be able to accept the invitation.
 Republican Representatives have hoped for a long time that they could get through with the work in Congress by the last of April, but the statement of the President indicates that he does not ex- pect an adjournment before some time In June.
 The fact that no important legislation is to be had at the session beyond the Panama Canal and the appropria ton bills. has induced many Senators and Republicans to hope that they would be able to get away from here early in the spring.