The Butler weekly times., 1905-07-13
Bic CANAL SCAN
DIAL PROMISED.
The Route at Panama Claimed
to be Impractical and Con-
troIIed by Rail Road lnfIu.
enCe.
ence.

Washington, Ialy >.-Gen. Hsins
aad Col. Herrod. engineer commits
sioners cf the isthuian canal, have
gone TO the lsthmus to make per-
ssnsl inspection, They expect while
there to collect the inal data to be
submitted 10 the great International
engineers board. which is 10 decide
Gually upon the generalp plan on which
the canal is to he built by the United
States.
In going TO the isthmus ths two
engineer commissioners will be acting
in direct accord with the order OF
President Roosevelt, who has issut d
the order for the assembling OF the
commission and who wants allneces-
ssry data to be ready for the engi-
neers from the different nations when
they arrive in Washington. 1t is
possible that the engineers will 60 to
the isthmus as a part OF their scheme
OF devising a plan for the building OF
the canal. This will only be for the
purpose OF making personal---very.
OF the different obstacles which are
presented to the construction OF the
great waterway.
The government already has In it's
possession all of the technical inior-
nation collected through long Sc
rias OF years by the French engineers.
Since American ownership Of the
canal property the engineers In the
employ OF our commission have made
extensive researches. All OF the ex-
tsnsive field notes gathered by the
governments will be placed at the
disposal OF the international board.
YEoMASs' SENSATIONAL INTERVIEW.
Judge j. d. Yeomans, former MEM
bsQ OF the interstate commerce COM
mission, is out with a sensational In.
tsrview, much OF which was published
in Iowa during his recent trip in the
west. Judge Yeomans returned from
tho wes. and frankly repeated to a
representative OF the Globe Democrat
what he had said in the west.
MIR. Yeomans is an advocate OF the
Nicaragua route, and declared that
tho Panama route is impossible for
both sanitary and engineering rea-
sons. He declares, moreover, that
the French company was ruined by
the discovery that, beyond all ques-
ton, it was working on an impossible
enterprise. Then, euppressing the
iast that it knew the scheme could
nsver be carried out, the Frenchmen
sold the canal to the United States.
This country, in Judge ieomans'
opinion, is lust awakening to the
realization that it has bought q
magnificent gold brick.
81 was a member OF a syndicate
some years ago that was prepared to
contract to build the canal at Nicar-
aqua for 1920, 900, ,000," Judge Yso-
mnus declared. 1--WE knew what we
were doing, and could have build a
canal with a capacity for all the
freight that will ever seek such a
route. We knew that the route was
practicable, and that the Panama
route wac not.
ALLEGES RAILROAD INFLUENCE.
"The real opposition to the cana
al the time was backed by the big
railroad Interests. When the Nicsrs
qua route was high in popular favor
and 1t looked seriously as II il nigh,
b adopted and ditch dug, what
happened? The railroad interests
got busy to head it OF. They tool
up the Panama idea, and regular
campaign was organized IN favor o.
ransma as against Nicaragua. The
country was convinced that Panama
wns the real route, and that Nicara
gga would never do. They did Il be
ssuse they knew canal could not b,
built at Panama, and II 1t could bt
built at all it could not bs done II
generations Of time. And they want
II to prevent or delay the canal a
long as possible.
"Thsy don't want II, because thu
hlg freight business on q canal would
b between the two coasts Of thil
country. Freight can be hauled BY
boat from one coast TO the othel
th,ough . canal In several days lsss
dine than freight trains haul II, and