Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-09
R 90 SEVELT
ON THE CANAL
Panama Ditch Affairs Brought
Before the Senate Great
Progress Being Made.
~ SKIINGTON, Jan. 9.-The senate
entire attention to the Pana-

WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.-The senate
entire attention to the Pana-
knal, the situation in Santo Do
60 and the merchant marine ship
& bill.
he canal question came up in con-
lion with a message from the pres
mt. in which, among other things,
invited the closest scrutiny into all
at had been done by the government
the isthmus of Panama. Mr.. Cor
IAN made that utterance the text for
speech, in which he criticised the sal
fies paid for work in connection with
he canal and urged congressional in
Iduiry.
The letter of President Roosevelt
transmitting to congress the annual re-
portS(of the isthmian canal commission
and the Panama Railroad is
as follows:
Il incfose herewith the annual report
of the isthfnian canal commission, the
annual report of the Panama Railroad
company and the secretary of wars
letter transmitting the same, together
viii certain papers.
1.-THE work ON the isthmus is being
admirably done, and great progress
has been made, especially during the
last nine months. The plant is being
made ready and the organization per-
fected. The first work to be lone was
the work of sanitation. the necessary
preliminary to the work Of actual con-
nt,,,nk;N,x a,l Alsr Ia- hoo 1..-tol
forward with the utmost energy and
means. IN a short while / shall lay
before you the recommendations of the
commission and of the board of con-
sulting engineers as to the proper plan
to be adopted Cor the canal itself, to-
gether with my own recommendations
thereon. ,
From time to time various publica.
tions have been made, and from time
to time in the future various similar
publications doubtless will be made,
~purporting to give al account of job
berry or immortality or inefficiency or
misery as obtaining OH the isthmus. I
have carefully examined into each of
these accusations which seemed worthy
Of attention. In every instance the &C.
cusations seemed to be without founda-
ton in any shape or form. They spring
from several sources. Sometimes they
take the shape of statements by ire
sponsible investigators of a sensational
habit Of mind. incapable of observing
or repeating with accuracy what they
see and DESTROYS of obtaining notoriety
by widespread SANDER. More often
they originate with or are given cur
rency by individuals with a personal
grievance.
THE sensation mongers, both those
who stay at home and those who visit
the isthmus. may ground their accusa-
tons OF false statements by some engi-
neer who. having applied for service on
h commission and been refused such
service, now endeavors to discredit his
successful competitors, or by some les
see or wner of real estate who has
sought action or ~inaction by the com
sion to increase the value of his lots
and is bitter because the commission
cannot be used for such purposes, or on
the tales of disappointed bidders for
contracts, or of ofiiceholders who have
proved incompetent or who have been
suspected of corruption and dismissed
or who have been overcome by panic
and nave fled from the isthmus.
Every specific charge relating to job
berry, to immortality or to ineficiency,
from whatever source it has come, has
been Immediately Investigated, and in
no single instance have the statements
of these sensation mongers and the in
terested compliments behind them
proved true.
When the presidents message was
read Mr.. German took the floor and
said he hoped congress would give the
president the investigation he asked
for
Senators German and Rayner, both
of Maryland, for four hours made the
most bitter attacks on President Roose-
welt.
Rooseveltism as compared with Mon
roeism, with Santo Domingo as a prac-
teal Illustration. was the text of Sen
ator Rayner's speech.