Tolls Exemption.
THE PANAMA CANAL BILL. POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES [B* EIEOTEIO TELEGRAPH—COPYBIGHf] lUnitjSD Pbesb Association. 1 (Received 11.20 a.m.) Washington, May 12. Senator Stoke Smith championed the repeal of the exemption clause in the Panama Bill, and said that Mr Taft was wrong in supposing that the Democrats' idea in voting to free the coastwise trade from tolls was to give a subsidy to American coastwise ships. The Hay-Paunce-fote treaty undoubtedly was part of the United States' title to the Canal zone; therefore the abolition of the treaty was absurd. If the treaty were terminated, the United States would be obliged to give up control of the Canal unless she abandoned her attitude as a law-abiding nation, and to resort to brute force to keep what she had illegally obtained.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 13 May 1914, Page 5
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132Tolls Exemption. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 13 May 1914, Page 5
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