The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-04
OUR RIGHT ID FIX
 THE CANAL RATES
SENATOR FLETCHER SAYS WE HAVE RIGHT TO GRANT FREE
 TOLL TO OUR SHIPS.
Expects Mighty Acceleration of Business in Cult States on It's
 Completion.

continued debate on the Panama ca nal bill discloses a sharp divergence l of views, especially with respect to | the question of tolls, it become more and more evident that the spirit of | Amerlcanism is strong enough to make it apparent that a majority of the senators will favor free tolls. It Is also obvious that a majority of senators regard as a bubble any questioning of the rights of the United States, in the control of the canal zone, that do not constitute an equivalent to sovereignty. That seems to be doubly settled in their minds by the terms of the treaty and by the fact of the expenditures, by the United States exclusively, of $400 900 in the construction of the canal
 Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, one of the most progressive of southern senators, president of the
 Southern Commercial Congress and and prominently identified with sev- eral waterway improvement associa- ! tions, fayors free tolls outright for American ships, believing that there is nothing in the Hay -Pauncefote
 treaty that nhibits the United States from exercising natural right over
 the canal
 T am for unrestricted competition and the prevention of monopoly in transportation, which we all agree IS the paramount object of the great enterprise" asid the senator today. i There is nothing in our future so vital to the grand consummation of | the diffusion of prosperity through
 out our country as the proper care for our national commercial highways our navigable rivers and .harbors and l the Panama canal. Our inland water
 ways were made perpetually free by
 our forefathers. We should keep
 them free; and so with the canal for
 our people, which we are building
 with our peoples money.
 The operation of the canal across 1 the Isthmus of Panama free of tolls to | American coastwise ships, has to my
 mind intimate supplemental relation
 to unremitting care for the national l system of river and harbor improve. | meht. While 1 am inclined to favor the house proposition on the question | of tolls, believe we are going to ar | rive at solution--a solution that we are in duty bound to reach-which will satisfy both the patriotic and l business sentiment of the United | States.
 As to our rights on the isthmus of | Panama, l do not agree at all that any treaty or concession imposes up- I on the United States any limitations l incompatible with sovereignty within | the limit of the ten -mile-wide canal | strip. Objection as to limitation of | sovereignty is mere quibbling. The canal, once completed. is completed to endure, and will endure for all time l unless wrecked by some convulsion of nature worse than the world has ever l known.
 Within the next decade I expect to sec a mighty scceleration of business
 activity particularly in our gulf : states, in both foreign and domestic trade, brought about through the op-
 eration of the Panama canal and
 through continued inland waterway | improvement in the Mississippi val
 ley, from all of which benefit will re- dounb to remotest corners of our country.
 We are bound to have a thorough coastal canal system, expedited to
 consumation by the completion of
 the Panama canal, a system upon
 which we have already got an en- couraging start The completion of
 the coastal canal system, even be- tween the lower Atlantic coast and 1 the lower Mississippi river, with iree i inland waterways and absolutely fIN terminal port facilities, will enabA\ us to go forward, inspired to mah' the best of our unequaled capacity for production with the permanent assurance of ready means of distri-
 button, which, as I have indicated, is the grand desideratum at which we
 aim Nothing would quicker grins
 about a lowering of the cost of liv- ing. which has burdened the bulk of our population, than the conservation
 of our navigable possibilities in the | United States, and the operation Of the Panama canal Surely we are
 equal to the problem
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