PANAMA CANAL TOLLS.
"GRAFT" AND EXEMPTION
By Telegraph..—Press Association.- — Washington, Thursday.
Before the Senate Lobbying Investigation Committee a witness named Clarence Knight admitted receiving a thousand dollars from Admiral Boweß, a retired officer, now head of a shipbuilding company, for lobbying in favour of the exemption of America from the operation of the Panama Canal tolls. He said that be was promised additional suiris, but never received them.
Admiral Bowles denied the charge. The Senate adopted a resolution demanding that Mr Walter H. Page, Ambassador to Britain,- explain his Panama Canal speech before the Associated Chamber of Commerce in London.
Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, took exception to Mr Page's definition of the Monroe Doctrine, and also wished an explanation of Mr Page's meaning when he said the British would profit most by ihe construction of the Canal.
The resolution was passed without debate.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 651, 14 March 1914, Page 5
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143PANAMA CANAL TOLLS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 651, 14 March 1914, Page 5
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