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THE TOLLS QUESTION. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright ■WASHINGTON, February 8. ■ Mr Adamson (a member of the House of Representatives), chairman of the Foreign Commerce 'Committee,' assorts that the free tolls provision war inserted in the Democratic platform without the knowledge of a majority of the Resolutions Committee.., , . In consequence of this the way is now clear for a congressional debate upon . a repealing measure’. The subsidy question is not a cardinal plank of the Democratic platform, therefore there is not likely te be any real resistance to the Presi. dent’s programme.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8652, 10 February 1914, Page 5
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