PANAMA CANAL BILL
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iPASSES THE SENATE
IMIVHTANT AMENDMENTS REJECTED. >
(Received Last Night. 5.5 .o'clock.) ■*'. WASHINGTON, August 10.
[The Panama Canal Hill., providing for the frte passage cif American ships, prohibiting railroad-owned vessels from using the carnal, and iiuthocising the establishment of ,a one-num government when the eruia'l is competed, ha.s passed in* the Senate ;by 47 votes to *ls. , •Senator E'ihu Root moved to -strike j oift the clause providing; for free tolls] for roast-wise (ships, and Senator Hope Simple propose*! to strike out the, clause providing for free'tolls for Ame- ( rican ships engaged in fcreign trade, j Both motions were defeated by.over- ■ whebriing majoritiys. Senator Brandeya insisted that the | admission of foreign trading vessels < would he a violation of the Hav-J Pauncefore Treaty. It would, lie said, be humilmtinp: to see American .ships .'abe!lcd, "Built in Germany." 1
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 12 August 1912, Page 5
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148PANAMA CANAL BILL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 12 August 1912, Page 5
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