"It has done enormous harm, it is no longer needed, and it should be repealed."
"I inspected the Ancon Hospital, going through various wards both for white patients and for colored patients."
"It must be remembered that his work was not mere sanitation as the term is understood in our ordinary municipal work."
"I also inspected the receiving hospitals in various settlements."
"I also examined certain of the schools and saw the school children, both white and colored, speaking with certain of the teachers."
"Especial care has been devoted to minimizing the risk due to the presence of those species of mosquitoes which have been found to propagate malarial and yellow fevers."
"The timber and stone act has demonstrated conclusively that its effect is to turn over the public timber lands to great corporations."
"The money value of the national forests now reserved for the use and benefit of the people exceeds considerably the sum of one thousand millions of dollars."
"To have yielded to the natural impatience of ill-informed outsiders and begun all kinds of experiments in work prior to a thorough sanitation of the Isthmus, would have been disastrous."
"All the patients that I saw, with one or two exceptions, were laborers or other employees on the canal works and railways."
"Many of the existing laws affecting rights of way and privileges on public lands and reservations are illogical and unfair."
"In the evening I attended a reception, which was also a Government function."