Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-04-03
THE NEW COMMISSION
 FOR CANAL WORK.
Secretary Taft Announced Names of Members and Sala ries they Will Receive To.Day-Al of Them are Nicely Taken Care of-The Chairman Besides a Salary of $7, 800 Will Receive $22,5OO.

gross intended that the commission was personally to do the work, or to come nearer to the direct agencies ill doing the work than the directory of a railroad comes to the construction of railroad work, and we may assume therefore that it was quite within the congressional intention that the com mission might, for convenience and rapidity of action, after formulating the general plan of work, delegate to a committee or committees the doing of the work in detail, the result to be reported subsequently of course to the full commission.
 "The commission should therefore appoint an executive committee to be constituted and empowered as here after stated"
 The secretary then states in detail his plans for the division of the work into departments and the reasons therefor, all of. which details are &C., cepted and promulgated in the presi- dents order. The letter concludes as follows:
 1.-The change of headquarters and power from Washington to the isth- mus will doubtless require radical change in the office of the commis- sion in Washington. am quite sure that greater economy and more satis- factory methods of accounting can be secured than now exist. Machinery for purchase of supplies and force sufficient to maintain duplicate set of accounts and the necessary core spondence must of course be main- tained in Washington, but very little else is needed. But these changes may be safely left to the commission and executive committee as newly constituted.
 T beg to submit herewith the re- signatiOns of all the present canal commission, to take effect at your pleasure.
 Il respectfully recommend the ap- pointment of a new commission and a designation of the chairman of the commission, the governor of the zone, and the chief engineer and the issu- ing of aq executive order embOdying the recommendations herein. Re spectfully yours,
 WILLIAM H. TAFT, !. "Secrtary of War.
 Ine president.
 The presidents action is indicated in the following reply:
 ''The White House, Washington, D.
 C., April 1, 1905.
 "The practical result of the opera tions of the isthmian canal commis- sion appointed and acting under pre-. viOus executive orders has not been satisfactory and requires q change in the personnel of the commission and in the instructions for it's guidance.
 "The commission will hold quar- terly sessions the first of January. April. July and October of each year at the office of the governor on the isthmus of Panama, and will con- tinue each session as long as public business may require. Further notice of such meetings shall not be neces- sary to their regularity. The commis- sion may hold special sessions at the call of the chairman. Four members shall constitute quorum and the ac- tiOn of such majority shall be the ac- ton of the commission.
 "The commission, under the super vision and direction of the secretary of war and subject to the approval of the president, is charged with the gen- eral duty of the adoption of the plans for the construction and maintenance of the canal. and with the explanation of the work of the same: with the purchase and delivery of supplies. machinery and necessary plant: the employment of the necessary officers. employees and labOrers and with tho fixing of their salaries and wages: with the commercial operation of the Panama railroad company and its steamship lines as common carriers; with the utilization of the railroad as means of constructing the canal: with the making of contracts for con struction and excavation and with all other matters incident and necessary to the building of a waterway across the isthmus of Panama as provided by the act of congress of June 2S. 1902.
 For convenience. and to secure the uninterrupted course of the work. an executive committee of not less than three members of the commission. shall be appointed by the commission to act in place of the commission dur ing the intervals between the meet ingS of the commission and tO report it's doings in full to the commission at the next regular meeting. X min- ute of every transaction of the exec utiye committee hall be made and one CODY of the minutes shall he forward esl to the secretary of war and another transmitted for the consideration of the commission at it's next meeting.
 Regular meetings of the executive committee shall be held at the office of the governor on tlse isthmus If Panama at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on each Monday and Wednesday of every week. and further notice of such meeting shall not be neceSSary to their legality. A majority of their number shall constitute quorum for the transaction of business at such meetings. The action of such major ity shall be the action of the execu- xs.<. ..x.u,n.ifton