The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-22
LOCK CANAL
 IS DECIDED ON Senate Joins House and
 President. LONG CONTEST IS SETTLED
Type of the Great Waterway is
 Definitely Determined.
At One Time sharp Difference Between the President and Hou e, As Op- rosed To sThe Senate Was
 Threatened.

Washington, June 21-The Senate took a position in accord with the Pres ident and the House of Representatives by declaring for a lock canal across the Isthmus of Panafna. The result was reached few minutes after o'clock and after a days discussion that was almost devoid of interesting incident, quito out, of keeping with the univer- sally acknowledged importance of the subject. There was only one recorded vote in connection with the disposition of the question and that was negabva in character. coming vn d motion to lay on the table the lock type and substi- tute for the sea level bill reports by the Committed on Interoceanic Canals. This motion was made by Senator Kit tredEe, the committee champion of the sea level plan, and was voted down thirty-one to thirty-six. This vote was accepted as decisive ana no one asked for divisionson the vote on the accept ance of the substitute
 The vote Is generally accepted as ending a long contest and definitely settling the type of the great water way. It terminates what at one time threatened to become a sharp difference beweem the Senate on the one hand and the President and the House on the other for there is no denying that when the bill was reported from the committee the iKdica tfons in the Senate were all favorable to the sea level type. There las been recently steady gain by the lock advocates notwithstanding the re- port of the Canal Committee as well as the reports of the Board of Consulting Engineers Awere against them.
 The Engineers Report.
 The engineers report has figured prominently in the discussion and fre- qusnt attention has been called to the fact that while eight out of the thir- teen engineers reported favorably to sea level canal all of the five disselt- CTS were American engineers. while of the other eight. five were Europeans Some SSnators avowed their prefer ence fora the all American report
 Senatdrs Kittridge. CuIloni, Scott. Foraker and Dick spoke on the bill today, but one Of them talked at great length
 senators Scott and Foraker announe- ed theft intention to vote for the lock plan of canal, saying they were hepeT ful that at some time in the future the canal w ould be deepen d to the I%vel Of tidewater. Mir. Foraker confessed that he was not entirely pursuaded, but that he had decided to follow the lead iof those who have the greatest responsibility, the President; the se- cretary of war and Engineer Stevens.
 Tie debate was closed by Senator Kittfedye in advocacy of the sea level
 
 type of canal, he quoted number of engineers to the effect tha tit could Ns completed within ten or twelve, not more than two or three years in ex- cess of the time required for lock canal
 HopIxins offers substitute.
 When the hour arrived for taking the vote. Senator Hopkins offered his substitute, providing for lock canal. fn substitute on the table, but the motion was lost 3t to 3s. the voted in detail being as follows:
 Yeas--Ankeny. Berry, Blackburn, Burnham, Burrows. Carmack. Clark .fMont.). Clay, Culberson. Daniel. Dick. Foster, Frazier. Gallinger, Hale, Kit tredge, Latimer McCumper, McLaurin, Mallory. Martin, Morgan, Nelson. Over man. PIatt. Rayner simons, Stone, Tal- iaferro. Tillman. Whyte-31.
 Nay-Allee, Allison, Benson, Bever- idge, Brandegee. Bulkeley Burkett. Carter. Clark (Wyo.), Cullom, Dolli- yer. Dryden, Flint. Foraker, Fulton, Gamble Hansbrough, Hemenway. Hey burn. Hopkins, Kean, Lafollette, Long, Lodge, Willard. Patterson, Penrose, Perkins. Piles, Proctor, Scott. Shoot, spooner, Sutherland. Warren, Wet more--36.
 The substitute was then agreed to without division. It is as follows:
 That a lock canal be constructed across the Isthmus of Panama con meeting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans of the general type pro- posed by the minority of the board of consulting engineers, created by order of the President, dated June 24, 1905, in pursuance of an act entitled an act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the At- lantic and Pacific oceans. approved June 28. 1902"