The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-02-06

doubt about Its enfcrcement: al ]
am In favos Of an attachment to lkal
law that will prevent man who nay
he treasurer Of the state FROM re.
oeiving interest even Indirectly =
vice president of . savings or natbhal
banking institution of this or any
other state. tApplause.) III iookinp
over the records and / have had but
httle time TO do it--iust since lar
rived IN MITCHELL find that tht al
legged reform legislature defeatedtwo
bills OF that sort. I think thai we
should enact such legislation. aid I
am IN favor OF doing Il. lCris Of
That's right."1
A s-Cent Hate.
There is another proposition OF
lecai interest that has occurred tme
and that Is the question Of pGss$g
rates and freight rates. I am In tvor
Of the enactment OF a law by thdeg-
ssture with an emergency cIausi at
tachment fixing 2-cents as the ldful
rate Tor passenger fares: and I a In
favor of reduced freight rates, dd |
atn not In favor Of shirking resplisi-
biiits by clothing the railroad bm-
missioners with authority In thekre-
misses. tApplause.)
The Type of Canal.
Another charge that has been hde
against me is that 1 favored the bp-
ton of a sea level type OF canal lth-
er than a lock type, and that. b It
because I was railroad chapIied
up, bound hand. foot and soul tkhe
railroad companies. That iskhe
charge that has been made, and.ley
base It upon the statement thahhe
lock type of canal could be coniet-
ed within six years of time, andtt a
cost. they say, of one hundred rf{fon
dollars less thnn the sea level tY of
canal would cost. IL has been Inn
onstrated by the experience nd in
connection with the constructid Of
this great work that sea levek,pe
of canal could be completed iftess
than eight years time, because irhat
construction, finding ~ we didkhe
maximum height of that divid& 60
feet above the level OF the sea ankhe
surface of the lake, where thebck
type shall be built eighty-five beet
above the sea level. Ii means thdI5
feet f.that divide must be lowed In
order that the lock type may opkte,
ard We at once began the excaJon
of that lis feet, and we put at brk
thefe' forty steam shovels wotng
eight hours day when eighty Am
shovefs could operate IN that dis}ce.
tiqhL or necessary, or good buiess
judgment TO put In eighty am
shoyels when forty steam Shells
would have IL completed long hre
the locks and dams In that strrlire
would be fisished. and with thosetty
steam shoveis. our experience has
been. that IL they were kept at brk
for less than eight years. seven hrs
aud q half at the present rattwe
hs.t III Z
structed straight through from Ian
To ocean, through which ships oyar
and commercial vessels might sahp-
on their own steam and IN six hrs
time.
And in this connection II is chted
that the reason we could not haIhe
sea level canal is because the Hfic
ocean Is lower than the Attic
ocean. IL Is four-tenths Of aSot,
which Is about four inches. bot
enough to make current. ,Sdat
the sea level type of canal couI by
demonstrations that have been tde
in excavation. have been finish in
less than eight years Of time, arthe
lock type Of canal, the time to Hid
1t, has been extended from six hrs
to nine years. and the chief eneer
Of the enterprise now engaged that
work, stated before the comuee,
of which have the honor to be tir-
man, tcheers1, that the only wahat
they could complete II in nine hrs
of time would be to work the lisix
years dav and night.
Quection Of Cost.
And about the cost--one huted
million dollars. Why they did NELL
you that II costs one million dhrs
annually more TO maintain andter-
ate the lock type Of canal thafhe
sea level type Of canal. and theher
day the secretary OF war and thdfef
engineer appeared before the ter-
oceanic committee and told uhat
instead Of that lock type Of pal
costing a little less than one hufed
and forty millions of dollars IL pld
cost at least two hundred andfty
millions Of dollar, and he wdhot
willing to assure that committehat
the type of canal would be comfed
for four hundred millions OF dhrs.
Congress by its vote decided tpn-
sruct the lock type of canal, In
that judgment i have stated fng
the past summer, over and overhin
that I acquiesce In that conciusI in
absolutely good faith / had a Hg-
ment about what ought to be me,
and / exercised IL as a man bffly,
Il
be silent in the face of those chSes,
when the facts are as they nohp-
pear. iustifying completely thefti-
mates and conclusions which lere
then expressed The sea IevelGpe
OF canaf was recommended by kry
engineer of the thirteen to be ksi-
Die proper. involving no unusu} no
doubtful, no experimental prbsi-
ton
T.hy. xnr~.a...-- -. x, II a.
1895, and President Roosevelt, ihiv-
ing them instructions before theIbe-
gan their Investigations, said abng
other things:
There are two or three cons:tra-
tions which I trust you will stdlily
keep before your minds In comic TO
a conclusion as to the proper tye Of
canal. L hope that ultimately II viii
prove feasible to build q sea levt ca
nal Such a canal would dndoDtr-
~ be the best In the end, Ii feafhle,
and / feel that one of the chic Cd.
vantages Of the Panama route b ui-
timately sea level canal" and more
along the same line.
So these great engineers, in pass
ing upon that question, unanimeusly
determined that the sea level type Of
canal was feasible; that IL involved no
unusual, no doubtful. no experimental
engineering question. Five of them
said. We can construct lock type Of
canal with an eighty-five foot elesa-
ton above the level of the sea In six
years time, and for fifty millions less"
and Col. Goethals and his associate
engineers have changed every feature
OF the plans that the minority of that
consulting board of engineers pro-
posed except in the actual excavation
of the work. They have changed the
slope of that great dam across the
Chagres river so that now instead OF
its being one on three it is one on FIVE;