Investigation of Panama Canal Matters: Testimony of Engineers ... [January 23, 1906 to April 2, 1906] |
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40 feet 85 feet BATES Bohio borings bottom build built BURR Chagres River CHAIRMAN channel Colonel ERNST committee construction Consulting Engineers cost course cubic yards Culebra cut dam at Gatun DAVIS depth dredging estimate excavation feet wide flood flow Gamboa dam gates Gatun dam gorge GORMAN Government HAINS hill indurated clay Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus lake lock canal lock plan majority masonry material matter mean miles Mindi minority report Miraflores navigation NOBLE Obispo Panama Canal Panama Railroad PARSONS pass Pedro Miguel prism proposed proposition question rock sea-level canal sea-level plan Senator ANKENY Senator DRYDEN Senator HOPKINS Senator KITTREDGE Senator KNOX Senator MORGAN Senator SIMMONS Senator TALIAFERRO ship Shonts shovels side Sosa statement STEARNS STEVENS Suez Canal suppose surface three locks tidal lock tide tion understand United vessels WALLACE width Zone
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Page 876 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 878 - ... that the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated...
Page 512 - Institute in the department of chemistry, and for some years assistant at the Lawrence experiment station of the Massachusetts State board of health, as research chemist and bacteriologist.
Page 883 - The laws of the land, with which the inhabitants are familiar, and which were in force on February 26, 1904. will continue in force in the canal zone and in other places on the isthmus over which the United States has jurisdiction until altered or annulled by the said commission...
Page 884 - ... persons afflicted with loathsome or dangerous contagious diseases, those who have been convicted of felony, anarchists, those whose purpose It Is to incite Insurrection, and others whose presence it is believed by the commission would tend to create public disorder, endanger the public health, or In any manner Impede the prosecution of the work of opening the canal...
Page 342 - Slater, let me ask you this question. Is it not a fact that...
Page 876 - ... said zone which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal, or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of said enterprise, the use, occupation, and control whereof were granted to the United States by article two of said treaty. The said zone is hereinafter referred to as
Page 878 - ... and provide for the punishment of crime, are considered as continuing in force, so far as they are compatible with the new order of things, until they are suspended or superseded by the occupying belligerent; and in practice they are not usually abrogated, but are allowed to remain in force, and to be administered by the ordinary tribunals, substantially as they were before the occupation. This enlightened practice is, so far as possible, to be adhered to on the present occasion.
Page 875 - States, upon such terms as he may deem reasonable, perpetual control of a strip of land, the territory of the Republic of Colombia, not less than six miles in width, extending from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 883 - ... no law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the rights of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances; that no law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...