Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-26
He PLANS FOR A
SEA LEVEL CANAL
Senator Kittredge Will Make a
Vigorous Fight TO That
End.
SENATE MAY SUPPORT HIM.
Has Gone Steadily Forward and Per-
snaded Majority of Committee
TO Agree With Him.

Special Correspondence
Washington, May 2L-Lf Congress
should determine upon a sea level canal
the result would be due to Senator
kittredge OF South Dakota more than
any one man. Believing in the sea
level plan after he had examined all
the available testimony, he has gone
steadily forward on that line and
brought a majority Of the committee
on canals, Of which he Is n leading
member, to agree with him. Kittredge
has done this in face of the fact that
the president, Secretary TAFT, Chair
man shonts, chief Engineer Stevens
rs well as nearly all the members OF
the isthmian canal commission favor
lock level canal IL Is true that the
majority Of the consulting board OF en-
glneers support Kttredge and the ma
jority Of the committee but that board
has not been considered as weighty as
the other influences. Kittredge I'm a
quiet but determined manner hss pur-
sued his way, and he believes the sem
ate Will agree with him when oil the
facts are brought before that body. II
the senate declares for n sea level ca
nal II will go a long way toward es-
tablishing that type.
FAIRBANKS LITTLE JOKE.
one day during the long debato on
the railroad rate bill IN the senate
Vice President Fairbanks called up 20
the desk one of tho newspaper men
who reports the proceedings Of the
senate and said.
tom, there IL a little item Of news
In the senate which I wish YOU would
mention"
Certainly Mr. Vice President said
the newspaper man, u shah be very
glad TO do So What Is it?"'
THE rate BILL" said the vice presI-
dent.
The newspaper man had been writ
ing rate bill debate for two months
Vice President Fairbanks had been
listening for an that time 10 talk on
this same subject.
TAKE IN EVERYTHING.
Lets put everything I'm the bill
when II gets back here" remarked
jim Mann 81 Illinois to some friends
about the house--"the telegraphs, tele-
phones and al other means NJ transit
from ono state to another Then every
body will De treated alike there will
he no special fayors shown TO one
class over another We can prevent
low rates being granted TO one class
that are not given to another"
A. % matter of fact, the greatest IA
vorIte IN telegraph rates Is the goyern-
mept Of the United states. The gov
eminent gets "a better rate than the
newspapers and a far better rate than
private individuals An attempt to
make the electric currents OF transmits
sion ~ news Interstate commerce
would present n novel and most inter-
esting question.
ENLISTED MEN IN THE NAVY.
Pathetic tales have been told in the
house OF representatives about the
manner in which boys are induced 10
Join the navy leaving old parents ana
young brothers and sisters without
means OF support When they try to
get out they find that the regulations
are extremely strict and that they can
not get discharges. IN the army they
would desert, but they cannot ger
away from a battleship. Appeals are
made 10 congressman, but these arc no
longer honored II n secretary grant
cd ono request OF this kind ne would
have 10 grant all and the result would
be discharges without number, greltlv
20 the prejudice OF discipline. That Il
the view that has been taken OF the
matter by the officers OF both army and
navy, and the officials IN civil life hav-
ms the subjects IN charge take the
same view. Isolated cases OF hardship
do not mean that the entire system vi