Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
CONNECT LAKES
WITH BIG RIVER
SCHEME FOR A SHIP CANAL TO
BE EXAMINED
Engineers Make a Trip of lnvestiqa-
tion-Japanese Newspapers Do
Not Show Any Antl-Ameri-
can Tendencies
Special to The Herald.

opSClhl W ne Herald.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Capt. Chas.
w. Kutz of the corps of engineers left
this week on tour Of inspection of the
rivers of the middle west and south
and to attend public hearings to be held
in many cities and towns by COM
mittee of the board of engineers for
rivers and harbors In addition Capt.
kutz Will make a careful examination,
at the request of the house committee
on rivers and harbors, of the proposed
1Curteen-foot ship canal from Lockport,
ILL.,, TO ST. Louis. This Is the project
that is Intended to join the waters of
the great lakes with the Gulf of Mexico,
giving the Mississippi and Missouri
river valley states direct water trans
portation to the outside world and in
surlng them share in the great trade
with South and Central America certain
to be opened up once the Panama canal
is finished. The inspection tour made
by Capt. Kutz will not amount to
much however, unless congress adopts
q more liberal policy with regard to
waterways development than 1t has
followed in the past. Alre~dy there are
improvement projects approved by the
government engineers amounting to
upward of $300,000,000. The national
rivers and harbors, which meets in con-
ing to have the federal government
provide means for carrying out the
recommendations of the engineers. An
annual appropriation of $50, 100000 is to
he asked at the hands of congress and
the sentiment in favor of such an APP
preparation is growing very strong
among commercial bodies throughout
the country.
If there is any anti-Amercan feeling
II, Tn ,- al 1NHrt tlan
editorial expressions of the principal
newspapers of the island empire. De-
spite reports that all Japan is aroused
over the treatment said to be accorded
their countrymen on the Pacific coast
a batch of clippings received by the
state department from Ambassador
Wright at Toxic breathe nothing but
peace and goodwill toward the United
States. The articles are extremely
moderate and friendly in tone, setting
forth that the troubles in San Francisco
are entirely local and that they cannot
be permitted in any sense to interfere
with the growth of closer business and
political relations between Japan and
the United States. They also indicate
readiness on the part of Japan to
enter into a reciprocity treaty with this
country to further commercial interests
between the two nations
Two Kinds of Circulation
The American Bankers association
convention has met, pondered over cur
rency reform adopted a plan and ad-
journed. To the layman the scheme of
the men of money seems to go long
way toward preventing monetary
troubles and consequent panics, but 1T
remains for some of the treasury Of
ficials or opposition bankers to pick
flaws in it. A number of bankers have
gone home, but several have gone down
to Hot Springs Va. where their head
quarters will be the Homestead hotel
for couple of weeks while they take
the baths at the noted winter resort.
One western man of affairs, who is
badly twisted with rheumatism but
who was the life of the party, bade his
friends good by in the lobby of the New
Willard.
"Since we've done our best to cure
the financial body of it's ailments" he
said, laughingly, ."I think it's up to me
to look out for my personal shortcom-
ings in circulation. I'm not legal
tender although I'm not counterfeit
II isn't the immunity bath I'm going
after, but I hope it'll prove as eff
fective."
1.-THE people Of the United States VS.
Theodore Roosevelt, president" will be
the title of a suit that will be filed as
soon as the chief executive returns from
the Isthmus. If James 3. Green, a negro
lawyer of this city. carries out his in
tention. The lawyer will take up the
case of the three companies of the
Twenty-fifth infantry whom the presi-
dent discharged because of the Browns
Vile. Tex, race troubles. The negro
soldiers, it will be remembered re-
fused to divulge the identity of several
OF their number who engaged in
a shooting affray with citizens of the
town, and the president forthwith is
sued a sweeping order discharging the
battalion, which took from the mem
bers the right to serve again in the mill
tary or naval service of the nation and
Furthermore abrogated their civil rights.
This order contends Mr.. Green, Is IN
direct violation of the constitution, and
he proposes to bring suit to compel the
setting aside Of the presidential order
and the return of their civil rights to
his clients. Only by a court-martial
can men be punished as the president
punished them, is the contention.
Rate Bill Hits Cadets
There are wailing and weeping in An
napolis and West Point because of the
new railroad rate bill. 1t has been the
practice of the railroads to carry the
embryonic admirals and generals to
the annual football game WITHOUT
charge. When the usual courtesy was
automatically asked this year it was
learned that. under the ruling of the
Hepburn bill, the cadets would be COM
PEELED to pay their own fares. The war
department, after full investigation
of the matter, has bowed its head TO the
inevitable and has ordered the cadets,
if they want to chase the pigskin
against the jackies of the other arm of
the service, to scrape together the price
of railroad ticket or stay in bar
racks.
Despite all the agitation and scandal
over the canned beef trade the export
of canned goods for the last fiscal year
reached the total of SIS, 100000 In 1895
the amount shipped abroad reached
valuation OF only $11,0O0.000, so that the
last years business is little more
than go per cent greater. OF this $1S,-
100000 the greater part was canned
beef, of which S6,5CO,0O0 went abroad.
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