Excerpt from Recognizing the Services of Citizens Employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, United States Senate, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session on S. 3457Senator walsh. What was the character of the work done by the civilians as compared with that performed by the men drawn from the public service?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.