The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-01-08
LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE FOR
OPERATION AND CONTROL OF
CANAL IN SIGHT.
ADAMS0N IS SATISFIED
Chairman Of Committee 10 Investigate
Ditch Voices the Opinion That Prog
ress and Quality Of Work Done Are
Entirely Satis'aetory-What's on tho
Program of Congress.


machinery TO provide for operation If
the Panama canal ana control Of the
canal zone win be started Tuesday.
when the house committee on inter-
state commerce will hold its first meet
ing to frame program for hearings
and other preliminary work as II basis
of the bin which VIII be reported out
OF tile house later in the session.
Chairman Adnmson and his COM
mlttee have just returned from a trip
to Panama, where they conferred with
chief Engineer Goethals ana other Of
flcials who are working to put the
great isthmlan ditch into active oper-
alton by January 1, 1915, and perhaps.
as they say, n year earlier. MIR.
Adamson has voiced the opinion that
the progress and quality of the work
done there are entirely satisfactory.
Other Problems.
The question of the treatment to be
accorded American shipping. whether
10 give craft flying the American flag
preferential rates In connection with
the passage through the canal and
whether to vest win discretion the
president as to the amount of tolls or
to make special Legislative provisions
for the rates, viii he fought out In the
committee.
Two appropriation bills are about
ready to emerge from committee In the
house. The District OF columbia bill,
which last year carried sl2,0o0,000. will
be completed and reported 10 the house
| early this week, and II Will be followed
| quickly by the pension appropriation
bill which runs usually close to
$3.50, 100000.
Pensions.
Even with this big pension supply
measure, n formidable supplement to
the pension expenditures. the Sher-
wood so-called dollar a day bill, will
be considered In the senate committee
| on pensions tomorrow
The Sherwood bill. which already
has passed the house. has few friends
In the senate. and the disposition IL
To cut any expenditures along that line
TO at least $25.O00,O0O or s30.0o0,oO0.
Chairman McCaimber OF the senate
committee on pensions has n bill em-
bodyng both age and service features.
which he will urge as a substitute. His
estimate of the annual cost under his
bin IL approximately $l7.000Oo0 while
the cost under the Sherwood bin IL
estimated at s75.o00,OoO,
The arbitration treaties with Great
Britain and France probably will be
| called up In open session of the senate
| within a fortnight. Friends of the
| treaties have held up action pending
,t,a Ina ~ bn ptr rx
| for their ratification. This strength
has not developed sufficiently yet, but
there are Indications OF n gain among
| the democratic senator's and of a senti-
ment increasingly favorable to Sen
ator Roots proposal to provide directly
that nothing in the treaties shall be
| construed to bind the United States "a
arbirate such questions as the Monroe
| docrine or control OF immigration.
Lorimer to Talk.
Senator Lorimer will testify tomor-
| row under oath for the first time since
| the senate ordered an investigation OF
| his election. He may take two days
| to tell his story
The house sugar investigating com
mittce is scheduled to resume hearings
tomorrow and the national monetary
commission will make Its final report
10 congress Tuesday. Senator Dupont
will speak In the senate Tuesday on O
bill to raise volunteer military forces In
time of actual or threatened war and
! the house foreign affairs eommltte.
| the same day VIII act on the bill max
Ing effective the international protec.
4 ti.,tt ..f Ytii ~ In, nAJ.tl
Pacific.