Valdez daily prospector., 1912-08-26

presses the hope that the presi- 1 dent will safeguard the honor of
 his country by, ,oysrturning the ac-
 tion of the, Senate, ,>:{ ;, ], 1, It, was, not hoped or even ex- pected that the.. British press
 would be highly pleased at the new
 declaration of Independence, and
 il is to be doubted whether any
 senator was actuated by any de-
 sire other than to please his own
 people through measure of jus
 ticc and right. It should also be
 remembered that the English
 pres. jealous of the authority of
 it's own country, seriously ubiect- i ed [" all Investigation of the Ti-
 tauic disaster in which more than
 a thousand Americans lost their
 lives, because of the fact that the Titanic was British ship sail ing under. the British flag, and that all investigation by the Unil- led States Senate. was tantamnumt O an Interference with a mat ter that was peculiarly British. Of course an assumption that America must not interfere with !maitrrs nf British control while Great Britain may dip it's hands into affairs peculiarly American does not appear to be consistent. but as a matter of fact the av- craze British newspaper never has been nOird for Iltra-runSiSt- .cnry.
 The suggestion that the prrSi- dent of the United States can in- icrfrrr With congress sinnal action in such matter will cause a smile upon IliS part of tn" big pond where everyone knows just what the Senate would do lu the | president if llr mixed up in Inc ! matter, iS clearly und"rSl"nd hy l "vrry school boy.
 The SIaIr department will n"i ! h". called upon iu anSWrr the Brit i, i:sh protest against American rule !; of an American waterway because Congress has taken the whole i matter out of the hands of the ad- | miniSLraiion. and the action of Congress in the matter is all the notice to the world that is deem ] cd necessary.
 In this same connection il may 1 bc said that considerable indig- nation has been expressed by Ca nadians of Congress- action ia voring American ships by the provision for free tolls amounts to When. our Canadian friends consider the situation calmly and dispassionately, it will be easy for them to see that the remedy lies entirely within their own hands.
 The government of thc United States waivcs the collection of tolls on American ships and stands the loss in revenue itself. The government of Canada or the government of Great Britain or any other country could do idcnlically the same lhing-makr provision for paying the tolls of it's ships out of the state treas ury.
 The talk nf violation of treaty rights has no sound OF subSlan- tial basis. The government of IhiS country is under no treaty obligation which denies il the right to remit any payments due it. from any source, OF In grant di- rect money subsidies, should il elect to do SO, to any American ships in any trade. That is a l matter purely of domestic con- corn.
 The SurZ canal iS open iO tho : vessels of all nations on identical terms, but that fact does not pre- vent any country which elects to do so from paying the tolls i'm posed upon iis merchant ships which use that canal. There is and there can be no question that the United Statcs has perfect l right Io pay thc tolls of iIs ships using Inc Su"Z canal, if it should tO do so. The government of Great Britain, which is thr prin- cipaI owner of the Sucz canal stock, and which has bound itself by treaty to see that there is no against the ships of any nation in the usc of that highway, repays to it's mcrchanlilc marine thC-tolls paid for passing