CANAL TOLLS.
AMERICAN EXEMPTION WILL BE DROPPED.
(Bt Elbctbic Telegraph—Coptbight.) (Per Pbiss Association.) Received March 6, 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON. March 5. The supporters of the President's campaign against toll exemption on American ships passing through the Panama Canal announce that it is certain the President's policy will carry both Houses, despite the opposition President Wilson shares this confidence.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Received March 6 11.20 a.m. WASHINGTON. March 5
President Wilson addressed Congress in person, urging that he was unable to know how to deal with other and more delicate matters if Congress did not support, him on this question. "We ought,'' he said. "to reverse our action without question as to whether we were or wrong, and so once more deserve'our reputation for generosity, and the redemption of every obligation without quibble or hesitation. Everywhere, except, in the United States, the language of the treaty is given but one interpretation, and that interpretation precludes the exemption which I am asking you to repeal."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9742, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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