Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-01-09
ROOSEVELT'SREPORT
Panama Canal Affairs Brought
 Before Senate.
GREAT PROGRESS IS BEING MADE.
President Scores Scandal Mongers. Both Stay-at-hOmes and Those on Isthmus - No Graft
 Charges Susta ined.

on Isthmus - No Graft
 Charges Sustained.
 Y WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The senate gave it's entire attention to the Pana- ma canal, the situation in Santo Do mingo and the merchant marine ship ping bill.
 The canal question came up in con- nection with message from the pres ident, ill which, among other things, he invited the closest scrutiny into all that had been done by the government in the isthmus of Panama. MT. Cor man made that utterance the text for speech, in which he criticised the sal aries paid for work in connection with the canal and urged congressional in Quiry
 The letter of President Roosevelt transmitting to congress the annual re- ports of the isthmian canal commission and the Panama Railroad company is as follows
 T inclose herewith the annual report of the isthmian canal commission, the annual report of the Panama Railroad letter transmitting the same, together with certain papers. &
 '"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 done was the work of sanitation, the necessary preliminary to the work of actual con- struction, and this has been pushed forward with the utmost energy and means. In short while I shall lay before you the recommendations of the commission and of the board of con- sultlng engineers as to the proper plan to be adopted for the canal itself, to- gether with my own recommendations thereon.
 From time to time various pubIica- tions have been made, and from time to time in the future various similar publications doubtless will be made, purpOrting to give an account of job bery or immortality or inefficiency or misery as obtaining on the isthmus. ' have carefully examined into each of these accusations which seemed worthy of attention. In every instance the ac cusations seemed to be without founda- tion in any shape or form. They spring
 
 cake the shape of statements by ire sponsible Investigators of sensational habit of mind, incapable of observing or repeating with accuracy what they see and desirous of obtaining nOtOriety by widespread islander. More often they originate with or are given cur rency by individuals with personal grievance
 'The sensation mOngers, both those who stay at home and those who visit the isthmus. may ground their accusa-, lions on false statements by soine ehgi- neer who. having applied for service on the commission and been refused such service, now endeavors to discredit his successful competitors, or by some les see or owner 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 Officeholders who have proved incompetent or who have been suspected of corruption and dismissed or who have been overcome by panic and have fled from the isthmus.
 Every specific charge relating to job bery, to immortality or to inefficiency, 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 complainants behind them proved true.
 When the presidents message was read Mir. 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- tical illustration. was the text of Sen ator Rayner's speech.