SENATE INVESTIGATIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 16 March 1914, Page 5

SENATE INVESTIGATIONS.

BY CABLE—PUESS ASSOCIATIOTST-^OPYRIQHT. WASHINGTON, March 14. ' Ihe Senate Lobbying Investigation Committee learned from witnesses that the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had spent £6000 in promoting the repeal of the canal tolls. Millions of pamphlets had been distributed throucrhout the United States against the tolls exemption WASHINGTON, March 15. # .Representative Knowland, in opposing a favorable report on Mr Sims' Bill repealing the tolls exemption at .Panama, asserted that Mr Sims' Bill gave notice to the world that the United States had abandoned the. policy of an American-controlled canal, and surrendered the power of the control ot its commerce because of the peace-at-any-pnce policy. Mr Knowland asserted that thousands of patriotic Americans considered America was abjectly surrendering her national honor . A large section of the press is agitating against Mr Sims' Bill, particularly m districts where Irish and German voters are predominant. Senator Chamberlain, commenting on Ambassador Page's reply, said some means ought to be found'to seal the Ambassador's lips, otherwise he ought to be recalled. .This was the second time within a year that Dr Pa^e had been guilty of impropriety in placing the American people before the British public in a false light.