The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-15
THE PANAMA CANAL,
WHO MAY BUILD It
The TwO-State Proposition Has
Brought Out Many Good
Stories.
MAXIMUM VS.. MINIMUM
FOR RAILROAD RATES
Various Propositions for An
nexatiOn Favored by Some
Senators.
Special 10 Ths Tribune.


WASHINGTON, Jan. l6.-Whenever II
has been proposed TO place the building
OF the canal under the engineers OF the
army, there has been a great deal OF op
position No ono seems to know Just
why, but from tho very beginning 1t has
appeared that those interested In the
canal did not want army engineers. Navy
officers and civil engineers have been
chosen To be the heads OF commissions.
but never an army engineer, And yet
IL Is the army engineers who have con-
structed the big cnnals and improved the
waterways In the United States All
river and harbor improvements have been
under their direction. and these works
nave been successfully prosecuted. New
York State selected an army engineer TO
construct it's great canal Improvement.
and Philadelphia has asked for another
army engineer 10 take charge of tho en-
glncerlnS works of that city. After re-
peated failures and when the country has
become well nigh discouraged over the
construction OF the interoceanic water
way, then Will the army engineers be
called upon, and In good time they Will
complete the canal. This Is not going to
be done without great expense, no one
knows how much It viii cost, but tho en-
gineers of the army will construct the
canal cheaper than any others can do II.
During the discussion OF tho canal propo-
sltion In the Senate. Senator Elkins of
West Virginia entered the debate long
enough 10 declare I'm favor OF tho army
engineers ae canal builders 1t is true
that everybody was so enGrossed with
paid no attention to him. but the time is
coming when tho army engineers will be
placed in charge of the canal work.
Two State Stories.
Discussion OF the admission OF two new
States Is frequent, and occasionally some
good story develops that does not pertain
strictly to New Mexico and Arizona. 1T
is outrageous TO create State 3Go miles
wide and 700 miles long" remarked Sena-
for Teller recently, Keep them out until
admission. II that is the reason" he con-
tnued. "but either Arizona or New
Mexico has larger population now than
Wyoming.
"Or Delaware" some one remarked.
al never did think much of Delaware"
continued the Colorado Senator. but she
has produced some great men. l remem-
Der coming TO Washington in 1856, and
sitting In the gallery listened to Bayard,
not the one that was In Cleveland's Cabi
net and afterward Minister to England
but the one before him. il was q speech
on reconstruction at time when war
feeling ran very high. l was a Republl-
can. and naturally imbued with the war
spirit. In fact. the troubles we had in
feel as deeply as other sections OF the
North / naturally was opposed to tho
side that Bayard took. but he spoke as q
lowycr, and he made such fine legal
presentation Of the case that | had to
acknowledge that he was right / re-
member that Stewart OF Nevada replied
but his argument was not an answer TO
Bayard. Stewart In those days had the
same vigorous manner as when he re-
tired from the Senate. but his beard was
not white but reddish. He was n strIk-
ing figure"
Then the talk turned upon Stewart
and the prejudices he had. especially the
feeling he had against Andrew Johnson.
and which he ever retained
II was in the House the day they
passed the impeachment resolution" con-
tinued Teller. and It was the widest
mob getting ready TO hang a mani
didn't see the hanging, but ] saw tho mob
I once mounted q table and made
speech urging a mob not to hang n man
and succeeded, too-twice l havo done
that-but those mobs did not create as
much pnndemonium as the House of
that an old man, Pruyn OF Albany, n. Y,
-he was so years old and very able
lawyer-tried to make a speech, but they
wouldn't listen to him He was against
himself heard The members shouted and
pounded with their feet. and when they
stopped the galleries took 1t up 1t was
such scene OF disorder as had never
been known before or since"
Then the talk turned upon the Republi-
can Senator's who had voted against Inn
of them are still living. only two are left
believe ono Is James B. Henderson,
VINO was a Senator from Missouri, and is
now living In this city. and the other.
Edmund G. Ross OF Kansas, who is a |
printer somewhere down In New Mexico. |
Minimum VS.. Maximum.
We have begun to hear something about |
the minimum rate as applied to railroad |
legislation. and naturally It may be |
asked Just how much OF n figure the |
proposition to have minimum as we'll ns |
maximum rates will cut In the railroad |
ratio legislation. AS O matter OF absolute |