The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-01-25
OUR GREAT DITCH
HAS A RANK ODOR
WILLIAMS CHARGES CoRRuP-
TlON AND INCOMPETENCE IN
CONNECTION WITH IT.
DENTISTS ALL RIGHT.
When Teeth Are to Be Plugged or
Filled Eut They Should Not
Be Employed in Digging
Canals.

Wa. hngton Jan 2i-"A Already the
Panama canal Is beginning to smell
like the old French canal did until it's
rottenness was exposed by the French
republic" said Representative John
Sharp Williams on the floor of the
house today
We are getting politicians and Office
holders to dig ditch instead Of going
about il in the right and natural way.
If a man wants a canal dug he usually
goes to men who know something Of
digging canals, He does not consult
with artists or dentists.
Mr. VILLAINS was oppcIng an item
Of $5.2lo,7SG in the Urgent Deficiency
bil to carry on The canal work until
The beginning of the next fiscal year.
He declared that the item was not
dodciancy' to be pa ed upon in a
iedcieny bill No man more than he
/ and no section OF the country more
than his wanted the canal completed,
but he did not think the work was
being properly conducted.
1--WE are about" hc said, 20 begin
the ustruct on Of the canal / say
about o begin, because about is the
mos indefinite word in The English
I language and because indefinite terms
only can be employed in discu sing
this matter What we want is a plan
for the canal. Il is nor known yet
/ whether we are TO construct a sea
evel canal Of lock canal yet we go
/ light on purchasing great quantities
If material If the work IS to be done
/ by contract, as Chairman Shonts has
/ tntimatad in a speech, why should we
/ keep on buying expensive eXcaYating
I machinery etc. What will we do with
] Il after we leu the contracts? Maybe
/ If we compel the contractors TO use
tie machinery there they will charge
more for their work
I'm the entire detailed statement
submitted by The Panama commission
/ see but one item alares on
Ethmus $1,000 000--'h | favor. That
is for digging and I am heartily in
flavor of it.
"The government has already dem
onstraied it's inability and failure to /
10 this work itself, and the best plan /
row to let ont the work by contract I
10 experienced men, working under
he supervision of the governments /
exper,s, | have received innumerable I
letters from the Isthmus, charg ne
graft and corruption and mismanage-
ment. but I have nor used any of this .
information for the reason that I have I
not investigated it, But the suggestion (
.of graft and corruption is in the air
everywhere"
Mr.. Williams wa followed by Rep
re-entatiye Wiley Of New jersey, him
self a civil eng neer who indorsed all
that Mr. Williams had said regarding
the canal
Representative De Almond Dem.) /.
said the presence of Secretary Taft at
The head of the con truction of the
canal was a sufficient guarantee that
the work would be intelligenuy and
ypedi'iusly performed
Representative Madden of Illinois,
who had much TO do with the Chicago
drainage canal. advocated building the
canal bv contract He said the drain
age canal could neye~ have been con-
s.ucted within five years at cost of
S30O0O.000 IL the work had not been
lone by contract. Willie opposed TO
Americans working more than eight \,
hours a day he said. he favored let
ting the contractors manage their own
affairs. They knew, he said, how TO
meet labor troubles. and if the work
was d.ne hy contract e. would be done
within five years.
Representative Burton deprecated
The disposition to criticize the work
being done. but said that in his iudg-
ment a plan should BE- agreed upon ,
DE said the purchase of machinery
and expensive dredges and other
things would indicate that the gov
eminent proposed to i'self do the
work
Col Hepburn chairman Of the In
'sr tate and F-reiEn Commerce Com
mittee. said that congress had ex-
pre- sly tipulated that The president
should have the work done, 50 thar I
here would be no divided resp0ns-
biiity He charged Mr. Maiden with !
wanting The contract system adopted ,
so that his friends might participate
u the work When Mr.. Madden denied
.hi- Col Hepburn said: "The jadel
She doth protest TOO much"
Mr. Williams finally made Col. Hep
burn admit that the canal it not being
constructed with the president solely
BE- pgHsibie. fHere being a commission +
behind which the president could hiIe. {
HUSKY PENSION eILL.