PANAMA CANAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 1 April 1912, Page 5

PANAMA CANAL.

RIGHT TO DIFFERENTIATE TOLLS. Bj TeleEraph—Preas Assielition-CoDjrCeht (Rec. March 31, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, Starch 30. Senator O'Corraan, in giving evidence before the Senate Canal Commission, asserted that the Anglo-American Treaty gives America tho right to fix different tolls for American ships nml foreign ships using the Panama Canal. It would be preposterous, for instance, to require the United States to pay tolls on its own battleships. AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES. Washington, Aforch 23. The United States Agricultural Department is anxious to throw open tho Panama Canal zone to farmcTS. Thero are vast agricultural possibilities. The Department of War, however, objects to tho proposal on the ground that such action would interfere with tho military defences of tho Canal. JUNGLE PREFERRED TO CULTIVATION. (Rec. March 81, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, March SO. Colonel Goethals, chairman of the Canal Commission, proposed a unique sJhemo for tho defenco of Panama. Ho suggests that the inhabitants should bo driven out, and tho zone allowed to become a jungle, so as to prevent the possibility of an enemy receiving any advantage by having an open, settled territory to traverse.