Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-03

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| Yet it is absolutely harmless to the human body
| Not only harmless, but helpful In the extreme
Even a well person feels its instant benefit.
Liquozone is the only way known to kill germs
in the body without killing the tissues. too. Any
mitted to a board of engineers of the high
| est standing for recommendation as to the
| best plan upon which to proceed with the
| work.
at also has been made apparent by the
!. reports of Mr.. Wallace and the commits
sion that whatever plan is likely to be
| adopted, work of excavation and construc-
ton which would have to be done Under
! any plan may proceed without waste OF
| energy for a period quite long enough TO
enable you to decide which is the pest
| plan.
| Advisory Engineers
Il suggest. therefore, that the first work
| to be done is the appointment of an adj
| visory board of engineers, say seven or
| nine in number, to be selected from the
| engineers having especial knowledge of
| hydraulic engineering and canal construc-
| ton, to whom shall be submitted all pos
sible information with respect to the pro-
| jected Panama canal, both that obtained by
1 the French engineers before our purchase
of the plant, and the data obtained by the
| chief engineer of the present canal COM
| mission, together with all projects sug-
| gested for the solution of the problem
| which the canal commission deem reason
| ably possible or practicable; that this ad-
| visory board be invited to Washington for
| the purpose of agreeing upon its recon-
mendations in the premises and that II
possible such recommendations be made
before the regular meeting of Congress
| in December; that the recommendatio be
| submitted to the canal commission as then
| constituted, for its approval or modifica-
ton. and, with the recommendations OF the
canal commission be submitted to the Pres
| ident for his action and transmission to
| Congress AS already suggested, this work
| of securing the best plan and its approval
| by Congress need not delay in any way
| the preliminary work adapted to any pos
| sible plan. or the highly critical work of
sanitation, the extreme Importance OF when
you have already emphasized in your prevt-
| Gus instructions to the canal commission.
Reorganization Essential.
'It is conceded, even by its own mem
| bers, that the present commission has not
SO developed itself into an executive body
| as to give hope that 1t may be used sue
! cessfully as an instrumentality for carry
| ing on the immense executive burden in
volved in the construction of the canal,
and it remains for the President. in the
| failure Of Congress to act, to reorganize the
commission, both by change in personnel
| and by certain instructions as to its in
/ ternal procedure and distribution of powers
| and efficiency in the doing of the work.
'Tt is not to be supposed that Congress
| intended that the commission was person.
| ally to do the work. or to come nearer to
the direct agencies in doing the work
than the directory of a railroad comes to
| the construction Of railroad work, and we
| may assume, therefore, that 1t was quite
within the congressional intention that the
| commission might, for convenience and
rapidity of action, after formulating the
| general plan of work delegate to COM
mittee of committees, the doing OF the work
| in detail, the result to be reported SubSe-
uuently of course, to the full commission.
| The commission should, therefore. appoint
| an executive committee, to be constituted
| and empowered as hereafter stated
Division of Work.
1.-THE actual executive work must be d.
vded by the commission into departments.
| One department would naturally be the
| political department-that is, the control of
| the zone, over which there should be an
administrator or governor, and to secure
| harmony of action the wise policy is that
already followed of appointing member
of the commission to be governor. This
department should include, as 1t does now,
| the bureau of sanitation. because the latter
| involves policing the zone and the two
cities of Colon and Panama. Another de-
partment should be the engineering depart
ment, or department of construction, under
which the work is to be organized ana
| actually done. 1t should include the Gus
tody of supplies and the care OF plant, and
the practical operation of the railroad on
| the isthmus with the special view to its
utilization in canal construction. The chief
engineer must be the head of this and is
so important factor in the whole enter
prise that he should be given the powers
and dignity of a member of the commission
also. Another, and in many respects the
most important, department is that which
embraces the functions of financing the
operations of the commission, of purchas-
| ing the supplies, of the accounts and au-
dts, the commercial operations of the
Panama Railroad Company and the steam
ship lines, the general oversight of the
work and the duty of reporting the prog
ress of the same through the Secretary of
| War to the President. The head Of this
department should be the chairman of the
commission. All subordinates in depart
| ments should be appointed by the heads
| thereof under those provisions of the civil
service law which may have been made
| applicable, and their salaries fixed by the
same authority subject to the approval OF
| the commission, or in the intervals between
| the meetings of the commission by the
executive committee.
/ Transfer of Headquarters.
"An important change from the present
condition of affairs should be the transfer
of the headquarters of the commission
from Washington to the Isthmus of Pan
anna. where the work is to be DONE No
meeting of the commission or executive
committee should be held out OF the
/ isthmus except by express authority of
the Secretary of War; The attention Of
/ all engaged in the enterprise will thus
be fixed on the work With the general
i authority of the executive committee 1t
will be entirely possible for the work to
proceed unhindered without more frequent
/ meetings of the commission than once a
| quarter The executive committee should
have power to act while the commission Is
not Ia session Ii the purchase Of all sup