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PRESIDENT WILSON'S ATTITUDE HAY-plu^cfeFG)RTE "TREATY ■■■".. !MTiST-BE^ OBSERVED.
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;, WASHINGTON,^ Feb. 6. President .-■ Wilson "believes that the Hay-Pauncefbrte 'Treaty ■ guarantees ,; eqiial-ity .of •treatment to -all- nations 1 '•e---s.pecting'. th" c " usageiof the: canal and the Ignited; Sates is/'bouiid in honour to -ch^rg;e "Americari'i vessels the .same tolls; as those *bf foreign - nations. ■ . it' i^s ' iiriderstopd that .the House of Reprsentatives will ladopt the 'Presv dent's : view, :.but: a is Hkely to- arise amongst the Senators . Senator; O'G^rmanjlasserted that^he intended to I fijEfht ' • President Wilson's yjew.,. ■"..<•> / ... . . .. ' •Other Senators pointed our that- the Senate. Foreign' .Re'tations" Committae recenlv recomrh ended la arbu tf?t' ; nn\treaty. witH:, Britain. • v'-T.h' ; 's- Was -an- indication, that- tHe Sen Ptr» was- rendy to-.TRpcir'-rl their, action' ii.n'an' th? tolls -a^estion.. -,-... President -Wjlson'iS .deff^n follo\ved a year of /study . of h'the ;whole cmestxm It is undefstpod • that Britain has 'not fprpssd the: au^stion since she wn s nrivately-assujed/of'Pfe-sident'Wilson's 'friendly attitucle. sortie ago. ■
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Grey River Argus, 7 February 1914, Page 3
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