Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-21
CONGRESSMAN TO TAKE PART IN
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
FoSS.
WILL DELIVER SPEECHES
IN IMPORTANT CITIES
MIR. Good Will Go From Mass ehusetts
to Panama, on Special Committee
Work-Many Problems as to Rates
and Traffic to Be Solved BY His
Committee.

Cedar Rapids. Oct 21-Congressraan
Coed mas received an urgent telegram
from the chairman of the Massachu-
sets republican state central commit
tee asking him to go to that state and
make a series OF speeches in support
of the republican candidate for
governor. lie has complied with the
request and will speak in the import
ant political ceuters of that state dur
ing the last few weeks of the cam
paign.
Governor Foss, the democrat, is a
candidate for PREDICTION ard the ngnt
pelween the democrats and republic
cars over the head OF the .!cAet s
being fercely waged. Congress nan
Good is peculiarly well equipped to
answer the speeches of F'oss and the
republican leaders have for some tine
been trying to induce him to go TO
that state and help in the ba tie
From Massachusetts to Panama.
From Massachuse Congressman
Good will so to Panama with his COM
nlttee 70 examine the progress made
timony regarding the expenditures for
the work
The Panama calan VII, cost approx
im2tely SsQ0.o00,VUU, WHICH S s,yy 1t
a million dollars for each congress
sioral district in the United States.
The expenditure Of such vast sums OF
money calls fo. a great deal Of scrutiny
and with this responsibility Mr.
Goods committee is entrusted. When
the appropriations bills for the work
are being debated in congress this
committee is looked TO for information
needed The members of the commit
tee are expected TO be familiar with
every detail of the work to be able to
give good and sufficient reason why
this appropriation shou. De larger
than II was the previous year or why
that one need not be quite so large.
The purpose Of the committee in visit
ing Panama is 10 gather such informa-
ton, 10 scrutinize every expenditure, to
take such testimony as may be neces-
sary to give them the fullest Informal
ton regarding the progress Of the huge
undertaking.
Panama Cana! Tariffs.
Since the closing of the special ses-
sion of congress. Mr. Good has been
working on bill to extend the
powers ard duties of the interstate
commerce commission. giving the
commission the right 10 regulate the
| rates and charges of the Panama
canal. There is a difference of opin-
ION concerning this matter. P-esi-
dent Taft is Of the opinion that this
matter ought to be left entirely in
the hands Of the president, allowing
the chief executive TO fix the rates
which shall! be charged for traffic
thru the canal Mr.. Good believes that
this would drag the presidency more
and more in the naelst-om OF politics
and would hamper the successfulness
Of the administration.
The fixing Of the rates of the
Panama canal traffic is Of the great
est Importance and it is time that steps
We're taken towards their determina-
ton and PRONUNCIATION so tina, the
big shippers may have time and OPP
portunlty TO make their plans for the
future. The rates will probably be
much lower than present railroad
rates, but on the other hand they
Will not be SO low as to demoralize
the railroad situation.
The traffic thru the big canal is
/ bound TO be enormous. Take the item
Of sugar alone. Every year Hawaii
| ships about $4,000 900 worth of
sugar to small bay on the Pacific
coast Of the Isthmus, The sugar is
ira! sferred from the ships to railway
cars and hauled across the isthmus
TO be shipped in other vessels bound
for the port Of New York to be refined
in the great eastern retineres At the
present time there is but one small re-
fnery on the Pacific coast This is
only one Of the many factors entering
I into the question of the determination
of rates for Panama canal traffic.