The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-08
Panama Legislative Ma
chinery WILDE Started
Tomorrow.
FIRST MEETING
OF COMMITTEE
Question of Treatment to Be
Given American Shipping and
How Much Power to Accord
President Will Be Threshed
Out Before Bill Is
Drafted.

Nashinston. January 7.-LeSislative
machinery TO provide for operation Of
'he Fanama Canal and control OF the
canal zone viii be started Tuesday
"hth the House Committee OF Inter
state commerce will hold its first meet
ing !" frame a program for earrings
! mo other preliminary work as basis
: OF the bill which will bc reported out
10 the House later IN the session
Nndirman Adamson and his commit
tee nave just returned from trip to
Fanama. whore they conferred with
Lhief Enrlneer Goethals and other on
Gia!s who are working 20 put Ne gr eat
.s'',niah ditch into active operation
ny January IL. 1915. and pcrhaps as
they say. a year earIi,r. Mr.. Adam
son mas voiced the opinion that the
rfoGress and quality Of the work done
therc is entirely satisfactory The in
tcntlon OF the committee (, to Geek as
much Hight as possible. Mr.. Adamson
SAID Colonel Goethal5 might be sum
I.lonea 10 Washington, and that II the
secretary of War or the sccretarv OF
INC Navy could give the committee any
information they would be asked 70
appear.
The question OF the treatment TO be
accorded American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
10 give craft flying the American flag.
IN hcTv'ce either coastwise or to for
eien ports, preferential rates IN cor
nectioa with the passage through .be
! canal. etc.-and tho problem OF whcthcr
In vest wide discretion IN the President
aE TO the amount of tolls or to make
specific legislative provision for M.
! rates IN tn: bill. Will be fought ont
IN toe committee. The Senate Commit
tee on Inter-ocean!c Canals has made
| no plans. being disposed to wait upon
the House.
nils Nearly Ready.
Two appropriation bills are about
ready 10 .merse from committees o..
the Heuse. The District of Columbia
nili which last year carried $4,000 600
VIII be completed fe,d reported to the
House early this week, and will be fol-
lowed quickly by the pension appro-
priaiior Dill. which runs usually close
/ TO si5o,o00.ooo.
Even with this big pension supply
measure formidable supplement to
the pension expenditures. the Sherwood
so-callcd dol'ar-a-day BILL will b. con
sideFed In the Senate Committee on
tensions Tomorrow The Sherwood
! PHI, watch already has passed the
House. las few friends In the senate
ana .he disposition Is TO cut any expen-
diture along that Inns to at least s25,-
100000 or S30.0oo.o0t. Chairman Nc
4 Cumber. OF the Senate Committee on
PENSIONS. has bill Of Ills own en-
ecdyinG both aEe and service features.
WHICH ne VIII urge as substitute
His estimate OF the annual cost under
MS bill is approximately $4,000. 900.
"Aie the Sherwood bill is estimated
at ABOUT sI5.0o0.6o0. Action thus far
( has been delayed 10 await revised cost
estimates from the Pension Bureau
Inc arbitration treaties with Great
Britain and France probably will b..
caiief UP IN open session of the Senate
! within fortnight. Friends OF the
/ treaties have held up action pending a
marsnaiiins Of the strength necessary
for their ratification This strength
! has not developed sufficiently yet, but
there are indications of a gain among
. the Democratic Senators and a senti.
ment increasingly favorable to Senator
| Roots proposal to provide directly thar
nothing in the treaties shall be con-
strued 10 bind the United States to ar
bitrate such questions as the Monroe
Doctrine or control OF inlmisretion
Lorinier VIII Testify.
S4ator Lorimer morrow VIII tcs-
Gf$ under oath for the first time since
thS Senate ordered an investigation OF
mis- election. Judge Hanecy. his coun-
sci. intends 10 let the Senator tell his
own story In his own wsy. He NAV
take two days TO do so. Then the
cross examination Will begin.
Following his testimony the com
! mittee Is expected TO begin work on
Its report TO the Senate, where tho
final fight will come
The House sugar trust Investigating
committees arc scheduled to resume
hearings tomorrow. and the National
Monetary Commission will make It's
final report TO Congress on Tuesday.
Senator Dupont Will speak in the SEN
ate Tuesday on bill TO raise volunteer
military forces in time of actual or
threatened war. and the House Foreign
Affairs Committee the same day will
act on the bill making effective the
I International protection OF fur seal
and otter In the North Pacific. An.
drew Carnegie Is expected to testify
before the House steel committee on
"Wednesday.