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the administration Of laws and sanitation,
and must reside on the Isthmus. The head
! OF the third department Is the chief engineer,
| who will have charge Of all the actual con-
struction work, the custody Of the supplies
| and plant and the operation Of the railroad.
| BY the Presidents order each head OF a
! department n TO select his employees and
| fix their salaries, subject to the commits
| sion's approval, OF Of the executive COM
mittee when the commission is not in ses-
! sion. Contracts for the purchase Of supplies
! or construction involving more than $4,000
must be. made only after newspaper adj
vertisement, but lower contracts must be
! awarded after competition between bidders
! wherever practicable.
The President directs that the commits
sion shall meet soon in Washington TO re-
organize aud 20 fix the number and char
acter Of officers and employers to serve
in Washington. A complete system Of
accounts must be kept on the Isthmus and
duplicates tiled In Washington. In d..
recting tho creation Of the advisory board
the President says;
There shall be appointed by the President
nine civil engineers OF the highest standing
structOn and hydraulics, TO constitute q
board Of consultiag engineers, to which viii
be submitted BY the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion for it, consdera ton and advice the i'm
portant engineering questions arising in the
selection Of the best plan for the construction
Board OF Consulting Engineers shall be CON
sidered by. the lsthmian Canal Commission
and with the recommendations OF the COM
mission shall finally be submitted through
the Secretary Of War to the President for his
decision.
The executive committee Is to make
reports from time TO time. The Secretary
Of War il TO report 10 the President not
less than onoe year In regard 20 the com
Missions work.
In long letter transmitted to the Presi-
dent on March 80, Secretary Of War Taft
made several important suggestions and
recomme ndations, which were carried out
hy the President in his order. Among
other things Mr.. Taft recommended that
the headquarters Of the commission be
transferred from Washington to the 18TH
mus, and in advocating the creation OF
the executive board pointed out that II II
were invested with adequate authority
there would be few such delays az have
been experienced in the past. Concerning
the important question OF building lock
and dam or sea level canal, Mr.. Taft said:
In the matter Of the reorganization Of the
machinery by which thePanama Canal Is %
be built. beg first to call your attention TO
the extreme Importance Of fixing definite
plan with respect 10 which you may feel
practically executed and will result IN
navigable canal, and. second. that the naviga-
BILE canal will be the one best adapted 70 the
demands which may be made upon II by the
commerce Of the world
The act Of Congress evidently contempiates
a canal with locks. the cost Of which shall be
in the neighbQrhood Of $500, 900. 900, including
the. money already expended; IL is quite
best st' form M Of canal viii Be a sea level canal
with a tidal lock only az one end. and that
the cost Of II may exceed the $500 900 900
in the mind OF Congress by az least $780, OOo.O 600
The work Of the engineering department
Of the present commission has been largely
the plan OF the canal must be determined.
These data include typographical measure
ments, borings, the character II the sou, the
flow Of water in the rivers. all stated with
sufficient eXaCtness 10 secure the closest cal
culations by experienced engineers. though
the next few months these data win have
been so fully asceTtained BY the chief en- gtneer.
Mr.. Wallace. and his associates that they may
be submitted 20 a board OF engineers Of the
highest standing for recommendation as 20
the best plan upon which 70 proceed with the
IL also has been made apparent by the re-
ports Of Mr. Wallace and the compassion
work OF excavation and construction which
would have 10 be done under any plan may
proceed without waste Of energy for period
quite long, enough 20 enable you 10 DECIDE
suggest. therefore. that the first work
70 Sos 9S dSPe n @ say seven or nine IN
number. TO be selected from the engineers
having especial knowledge Of hydraulic
shall be submitted all possible information
with respect to the projected Panama Canal.
both that obtained by the French engineers
before our purchase OF the plant and the data
obtained BY the chief engineer Of the present
Canal Commission, together WIN al pToiects
suggested for the solution OF the problem
which the Canal Commission deem reason
ably possible or practicable; that TINS ad-
yisory board be invited TO Washington for
the purpose Of agreeing upon Us recon-
nendations in the premises. and that II pos
sible such recommendations be made before
the regular meeting Of Congress- In December;
that the recommendations be submitted
10 the Canal Commission as then constituted
sor its spproyai or modification, and with
the recommendations Of the Canal Commits
sion be submitted 10 the President for his
action and transmission TO Congress As
already Eu RRested, this Work OF securing
the hest plan and is approval by Congress
need not delay in any way the preliminary
work adapted 70 any possible plan or the
biThly critical work OF sanitation, the eE-
treme Importance Of which you have already
ernphasized In your previous instructions TO
the Canal Commission.
II became known tonight that the Presi-
dent has provided for another one OF the
Isthmian Canal Commissioners whose resig-
nations were asked for and secured by him.
He is Carl Ewald GrunsiSy Of San Francisco.
The choice Of membership on the consult
ing advisory board Of the Canal Commits
sion. or a place as consulting engineer OF
the arid lands reclamation service under
the Geological Survey, was offered Mr..
Gr1nslry' He accepted this last named
ONCE and was sworn In on Saturday. Ac-
cording to the understanding here, he will
be in nhafge Of the reclamation WORK.
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