PANAMA TOLLS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14234, 6 March 1914, Page 5

PANAMA TOLLS.

THE PRESIDENT'S CAMPAIGN. '« Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright Received; March (1 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, March 5. Tlie supporters of the President’s campaign against the toll exemption on American ships announce that they are certain that the President’s policy will be carried in both Houses, despite the opposition. ' President Wilson shares this confidence;. •' PRESIDENT WILSON APPEALS TO CONGRESS. TO REVERSE ITS ACTION. Received March G. 11.20 a.m. WASHINGTON, March 5. President Wilson addressed Congress in person on the question of tho Panama tolls, urging that ho was unable to know how to deal with other and more delicate matters if Congress did not support him on this question. “We outfit,” ho said, “to reverse our action without question as to whether we were right or wrong, and so once more deserve our reputation for generosity and the redemption of every obligation without quibble or hesitation. Everywhere except in tho United States the language of a treaty is given but one interpretation, ana that interpretation precludes the exemption I am asking you to repeal.”, . .