Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-01-30
oeAsoN TO BELIEVE HE
SO0D az MADE GOVERNOR
OF CANAL ZONE.
: WELL FITTED FOR PLACE.
lifted by His Military, Sanitary
S'' I'D Civil Experience-coIonel
G.ethaIs May Have Position
for Brief Time.
av GEORGE CLINTON.

ssnecially III duu
sp. .tare one of the chief questions
'.p .nterest has been, rs Major Gen
- oonard Wood to be made gov
%" "ar If the Panama Canal Zone?'
wi Tben the country was first in
,.,med through Washington dis
atchos that this question was being
seEed with apparently some sound
a.,s of base, the secretary of war
O ',id that General Wood was to be
,.rt IN command the eastern division
4 tbe army with Governors Island,
Vow York harbor, as his headquar-
ters
FIR some reason or other the coun-
,v seems to have accepted this word
INr Garrison as intended to mean
that General Wood was not to be
made the governor of the Canal Zone.
seems certain, however, that while
Mr. Garrison spoke the exact truth,
bs fact that he evaded answering the
direct question makes it seem likely
that the present chief of staff, after
ming TO Governors Island for a short
me will pack the furniture OF his
msrters and take up the march"
Via the steamship for the Isthmus Of
Panama. Colonel Goethals, the canals
chief engineer, may be made governor
for a few months.
Would Solve Problems.
Il General Wood is given the Pana-
ma appointment to succeed Goethals,
the act will solve many of the prob
lens which have been vexing the adj
miniStration. In the course of few
months there will be troops enough,
cavalry, infantry and artillery on the
Canal Zone to constitute proper
command for a major general. More
over, Leonard Wood has had more
experience in military-civil govern
mental matters than any other man
IN the United States army. 1t is gen.
orally conceded in Washington that
be would be a good governor of the
zone.
The differences of opinion which
exist in Washington as to the proper
form Of government Of the Canal
Zone have been frequently explained.
The present law provides for one
man rule while a proposed amend
ment to the law provides for a rule
Of three men. One of the stronger
Arguments for Commissioner Met
@Ife'S plan of a three-man commits
sion Is that no one man probably
could be found possessing the neces-
aFy qualifications to make final an
'VeH to military. sanitary and civil
administration questions.
General Wood not only is a mill.
ary man of admitted merit, but he
sa graduate physician and surgeon,
IN sympathy and touch with modern
sanitary methods, and further, he has
nae long experience as an executive
ID tropical climates and among tropi-
cal people. General Wood was mill
afy governor Of Cuba from December
IL 1899, until the transfer Of that
ountrys government to the Cuban
Republic, May 20, 1902. From 1903
70 1905 ne was governor of the Moro
province in the Philippine Islands,
aad ior two years thereafter he COM
LANDED the troops of the Philip
pine division.
Ooethals Doesn't Want Place Long.
Is generally understood in Wash
ms'on that Colonel Goethals, the
uei OF engineers of Panama canal
instruction, has no great desire to
'e me zones governor for any length
lime. There is nothing in the
lSce which can add anything to his
.ame' He has worked for seven
'eafs on the isthmus and probably
',rl lis engineer chiefs of division he
wa Ue gwen the thanks of the Anleri-
O'n congress for the great work done
"a me lsthmus. 1t is likely, however,
%'' colonel Goethals may be made
~ governor of the zone for a month
Two 10 give him the distinction Of
Work"
VIII take an executive order to
~vlisn the Panama Canal commission
sau tals order may be delayed long
M aOlsn to enable the present COM
~,SS'ohers to be present in an official
a. pa'ty when the first great ships
os, o@merce pass through the canal
: =, June They will also be present
49,, le builders of the canal at the
''UIauon next January.
!, rust to Antitrust Laws.
n '1O s OF the Democrats here seem
,b. ,sueFe that the party has better
.r Ice 10 be made permanently popu-
a,,s antitrust legislation than by the
,r.. and currency laws. The Demo
nsss. wiz put through their antitrust
bs S this winter and if the result
h s "a" works as they seem to think
bsa va work, they will hold that their
bssss sent Of its popularity was well
Be,o Ias been shown definitely that
ii ~ "SS been considerable change
tmn,' minds of the members OF the
tns. .''Snt party in the matter of anti
see,.s ,eslslation. One year ago it
b.. -ea from the temper of the mem
d H. mat every big business concern
~ country was to be dragged out
A.. counting room or IFS machine