PANAMA TOLLS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8682, 16 March 1914, Page 5

PANAMA TOLLS

SENATE INVESTIGATION AIILLIONS 0F PAMPHLETS DISTRIBUTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 15, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Alarcli 15. The Senate Lobbying Investigation Committee learned from witnesses that the Carnegie endowment for international peace spent £6OOO sterling in promoting the repeal of the Canal tolls. Millions of pamphlets have been distributed throughout the United States against the tolls exemption. “PEACE-AT-ANY'-PRICE POLICY.” HONOUR SUR- $ RENDERED. (Received March 16/0.45 a.m.) ' WASHINGTON, March 15. Representative Knowlarid, in opposing a favourable report on Air Sims’s bill repealing the tolls exemption for the Panama Canal, asserted that Mr Sims’s bill gave notice to the world that the United States had abandoned tho policy of an American-control-led canal, and had surrendered the power to control its commerce because of the peace-at>-any-price policy. Air Knowland asserted that thousands of patriotic Americans considered that America was abjectly surrendering ita national honour. ■ ' A large section of the press is agitating against Air Sims’s hill, particularly in districts where Irish and German voters are predominant.