The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-06
ANOTHER ROW
OF HUGE PROPORTIONS MAY SOON
 LOOM UP.
The Preaident Reported as Enraged at Failure of Canal Commissioners to Accomplish Anything-He
 Wants a Change Made.

Washington Special to New York
 World.
 The -Isthnisn Canal Commission will be legislated out of existence if Presi- dent Roosevelt and leading members of Congress can accomplish that end.
 General Davis, now Governor of the canal zone. will be relieved at his own request
 John Barrett, the present Minister to Panama, will be recalled when a convenient season is found.
 President Roosevelt will personally direct work on the canal, using Secre- tary Taft as a mouthpiece.
 This is the program arranged by the President after consultation with his Cabinet advises and prominent Sena- tors. It Is based on the report made by Secretary Taft following his visit to Panama and on information furnished by many persons with whom the Presi- dent has recently consulted.
 A bill is now being prepared amend ing the spooner act so as to eliminate the Canal Commission. Senator Ali son. of Iowa, brother-in-law to Rear Admiral Walker, Chairman of the Com mission. has served notice that he will not permit any amendment which will remove Admiral Walker. If his an- tagonism shall prove effective the President will assume that he has au- thority under the Spooner act to inn pose such tasks as he may see fit upon the individual members of the commits sion. If the amendment fail of passage the President will give each Commis- sioner instructions to perform certain specific duties and to live on the Isth- mus. where the work is to be done.
 The commission was appointed March l, 1904. more than ten months ago. Of those ten months only six weeks have been spent on the Isthmus. No prog ress has been made toward expediting canal construction. The President is and will take steps so that substantial headway may be made.
 The amendment to the Spooner- act will not change the discretion given the President to utilize the Nicaraguan route if the Panama route should be found impracticable. This is expected to remove the objection of Senator Morgan. who still believes that a ca nal cannot be constructed across the Isthmus of Panama and that the Nica- raguan route must eventually be sub stituted
 During the last week the President has had conferences with each member of the Canal Commission. He has been told that four different plans were proposed for taking up the work of construction, but that each was reject- ed, petty jealousies preventing headway as each mnmber would make a respec- table showing and thus reflect on his own failure.
 Secretary Taft and others with whom the President has consulted have told him that nothing is being done on the Isthmus. The methods pursued by the Panama Company are still op- erative, No new machinery has been introduced. No arrangements have been made for the employment of men in large numbers, or for taking prop CT care of them. The medical corps on the Isthmus Is torn by the same dis sensions and jealousies as the conn mission.
 Engineer Wallace has made deter mined efforts to get the work under way. He says that 5000 men. with modern machinery. can work for three years without reference to whether the canal shall have locks or be a sea