THE PANAMA CANAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 218, 14 March 1914, Page 5

THE PANAMA CANAL.

GREATEST BENEFIT TO BRITAIN. AMBASSADOR OX THE CARPET. By Cable—^fess - Association—Copyright Washington, March 12. Before the Senate Lobbying Investigation Committee, a. witness, named Clarence Knight, admitted receiving a thousand dollars from ex-Admiral Bowles, head of a shipbuilding company, for lobbying in favor of exemption of American vessels from canal tolls. He was promised additional sums, but never received them. Admiral Bowles denied the charge. The Senate adopted a resolution demanding that Dr. Page, Ambassador in Britain, should explain - his speech on the Panama'"Canal before the Associated Chambers of Commerce in London.

Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, took exception to Dr. Page's definition of the Monroe Doctrine. He also wished an explanation of Dr. Page's meaning when he said the British would profit most hy the construction of the canal. The resolution was passed without delate. Senator Chamberlain opposes the repeal of the exemption clause. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. STANDS UNDISTURBED. ■ \v. Received 13, 9.10 p.m. ~..' Washington, March 13. TlftPresident informed callers that the Monroe Doctrine was as much a part of the American foreign policy today as it was a hundred years ago. Without expressing any opinion on the speech of Dr. Page, the United States Ambassador, he refused to believe that there had been anything approaching'a suggestion that the doctrine was obsolete.

The Senate resolution declared that Dr. Page's remarks portended that the policy of the State Department was to abandon upon demand the Monroe doctrine, thus inviting European violation thereof.