PANAMA CANAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 7

PANAMA CANAL.

« FORTIFICATIONS. U.S. HOUSE VOTES IN FAVOUR OF PROPOSAL. MUCH CROSS-VOTING. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copjrieh*,. (Received February 27, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, 26th February. By an overwhelming majority, theUnited States House of Representatives' voted in favour of fortifying the Panama Canal by passing a preliminary fortifications appropriation of three million dollaTS. An amendment, asking the President to secure neutrality of the canal by treaty between America and the world's leading maritime Powers was proposed,, but defeated. The Republican and Democratic parties wera sharply divided on the question; and there was much cross-voting. Some of the speakers asserted that the United States' imperative duty was to •fortify the canal. The Senate is certain to adopt the* proposal. [The United States Government proposes to construct fortifications and establish naval stations at both ends of the canal, with the object of preserving its neutrality.] LARGE SLIP OF EARTH. NEW YORK, 26a February. Half a million yards of loose earth; has slipped in the Culebra Cut in the Panama Canal. [It was reported in The Times Engineering Supplement of 25th May, 1910, that on the famous Culebra Cut from Gamboa to Pedro Miguel there were over 70 steam shovels, from 45 to 90 tons, '■continuously at work, and that it was becoming increasingly evident that the date of the completion of the canal de•pended almost entirely on the time-, necessary to finish this section. There have been nearly 200 locomotives con-> linua-lly transporting; the excavated rock.].