Items of Interest July 3, 1902 Issue

Items of Interest

President Roosevelt signed the Isthmian Canal bill, June 28. If the Panama title cannot be transferred then work on the Nicaragua Canal can be begun at once. The President believes that both routes are feasible. The work of negotiating for rights and franchises will probably be turned over to the Department of Justice and receive the personal supervision of Attorney-General Knox. Diplomatic matters will be looked after by the State Department. All parties seem to agree in favoring Rear Admiral Walker for the head of the commission that will construct the canal. Admiral Walker was president of the two commissions that made the recent examinations of canal routes for the Government.

The present Congress passed an omnibus public building bill which provides for the erection of 118 new public buildings which will cost approximately $19,500,000. These buildings will be located in forty-two States of the Union. Mr. J. Knox Taylor, supervising architect of the Treasury Department, has absolute charge of all building operations for the Government in every part of the United States. Upon him will devolve the responsibility of selecting sites for these buildings, also the style of architecture, size, and material of which they will be constructed.

During the last two months there has been an increase in the number of undesirable immigrants arriving in New York, and during that time 1,742 have been deported. Within the last eleven months 10,943 persons over forty-five years of age have arrived here from Italy, and 1,581 have been deported on the ground that they were likely to become public charges.

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