The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-18
Tells of His Panama
 Trip.
Also Makes Suggestions as to the Per- .onneI of the Navy and Use of the Public
 Lands.

Washington, Dec. 17.--Three mes cages from the President were received by Congress today and their reading took practically all of the time of the Senate.
 The reading was delayed in the pension day The nessaRes were in relation to the public land laws ana the navy personnel bill and a recount ing of the Presidents visit to Inspect the Panama Canal
 The latter message attracted great interest because it was elaborately H. frustrated, showing the work on the great waterway in it's various stages. 1t was in the form of a very entertaining story of the Presidents visit As it was. read the Senators followed ft closely from handsomely bound copies which had been laid on their desks.
 Gpeelal Message. p To the Senate and House of Represent
 tatives:
 In the month of November visited the Isthmus of Panama, g9ing oyer the the also visited the cities of Panama and Colon, which are not in the Zone or un- der the untsd states dts, aS Dsr ns through it's agents, exercises controi for certain sanitary purposes.
 The s Louisiana, 3nin,, os,s on bsis winlen nast 2 on Wednesday afternoon, November IA. I came aboard her. after my stay ion shore. at about half past on Satur- day evening, November IT. On We'd hesfay afternoon and evening I re- ceiyed the President of Panama and his suite. and saw members of the Canal Commission, and various other gentle nlen, perfecting the arrangements for my visit, so that every hour that was ashore could be employed to advantage. sufficient length of time to allow of an exhaustive investigation of the min mei1t, still less to pass judgment on the engineering problems, but enough to enable me to get clear idea of the salient features of the great work and regards the sanitation of the Zone, Colon, and Panama the caring for and Sa dgrng I o th peSSs TSe Zone af E narrow strip of land, and 1t can be inspected much as one can inspect fifty or Sixty miles of great railroad, at the point where it runs through noun tains or overcomes other natural ob- stacles
 chose the month of November for my visit partly because 1t is the rain lest month of the year, the month in which, the work goes forward at the greatest disadvantage, and one of the meut of the French Canal Company found most unhealthy.
 Immediately after anchoring on the afternoon of Wednesday there was violent storm of wind and rain. NFrom that time we did not again see the sun until Saturday morning, the rain cons tlnuing almost steadily, but varying from fine drizzie to a torrential down. pour. During that time in fifteen min ntes at Cristobal 1.05 inches of rain tellt from l to a. m., November 16, 3.2 inches fell: for. the twenty four hours ending noon, November IS, 4.6S Inches fell. and for the six days ending nodh. November 16, 1924 inches fell The Chagres rose in flood to a greater height than It had attained during the last fifteen years, tearing out che track In one. place. It would have been im- possible to see the work going on un- der more unfavorable weather condi- tions. On Saturday, November IT, the sun shone now and then for a few minutes, although the day was gener- ally overcast and there were heavy ShoWers at intervals.
 First Day Ashore.
 On Thursday morning we landed at about half past and went slowly over the line of the Panama Railway ending with an expedition in a tug at the Pacific entrance of the canal out the canal will cease We took our dln- nished by the commissiioSn for r'df the use of the Government emp1oyes--Tio Warn- ing of our, coming being given. in- through various wards both for white patients and for colored patients in- spected portions of the constabulary S~idua1iiy @ 1Ho isa siso examfned ae @en certain ah of the schools and saw the school chii- dren, both white and colored, speaking afteIhoon of this day i was formally received in Panama by President Anna dor, who, together with the Government me with the most considerafe courtesy. for which hereby extend my most earnest thanks. I was driven through formally received and welcomed by the President and other members of the Government; and In the evening I att tended dinner given by the President, and a reception, which was also Gov srnment function. I also drove through the streets of Panama, for the purpose slept at the Hotel TiYoii. at Ancon. which Is on a hill directly outside of the city of Panama, but in the Zone.
 Second Day.
 On Friday morning we left the hotel at 2 o'clock and spent tine entire day going through the Culebra Cut-the spot in which most work will have to different steam shovels workings we saw the drilling and blasting we saw many of the dirt trains (of the two hs earth sRsy ffo the eOsH saea sEEoas els and depositing 1t on the dumps some or the dumps being, run out In the while In other esses they are beIne used for double tracking the railway, and in preparing to build the great utntss iS4tUd Aiiaity or Lne QlHeF6HG villages, inspecting thoroughly many different buildings-~the local receiving hospitals the houses in which the un- married White Workmen live, those in which the unmarried colored workmen livei AlBo the quarters Of the white married employees and of the married missary. stores, the bath houses, the water-closets, the cook sheds for the colored laborers, and the. Government the white employes take their meals. l