Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-23
CONGRESSES
STEADF Asst
FOR CANAL
CONTROL
John Temple Graves Finds Not
Senator orr Representative
Changed in Conviction.
MAJORITY STILL FOR FREE
TOLLS TO COAST VESSELS
Bv JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
Editorial Correspondence of The At
anta Georgian.

Editorial Correspondence of The At
lanta Georgian.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Americar
rights in the Panama canal will not be
repudiated by the sixty-second con-
gress.
The exemption of American coast
wise vessels from Panama tolls will
not be repealed in either house.
This much is admirably evident and
periodically certain
The speech of E1ihu Root has not
made a single break in the senatorial
line Of American loyalty.
The wabbhng uncertainty of Presi-
dent Taft has not weakened single
representative in either house of con-
gress. The lines are phalanx and the
waver1ng opposition has not a hope or
q chance Of success.
Charles Adamson, chairman of the
house committee on interstate and for
eign commerce, is out in formal
statement. in which he declares that
he has not and will not bring before
the house TIE Sims bill to repeal free
tolls for our domestic vessels, because
he does not discover a sign in the house
Of any intention to reverse its aftirma-
tive vote. Adamson himself voted
against the bill.
Root Repeal
Bill to Slumber.
Brandegee, of Connecticut, chairman
Of the senate committee on inter-
oceanic canals and an opponent of free
tolls, has made no plans to bring the
Root repeal bill before the senate, be-
cause he sees not a ray of hope that the
senate will reverse the splendid Ameri-
can vote by which it provided free tolls
for our domestic commerce.
And so from the ranks of these pow
erful oppositions leaders come the
frank and convincing assurance that
the American government will stand
pat on the control of it's own canal and
the advantage of its own commerce.
On May 29 the canal bill was before
the house of representatives on the
Doremus amendment providing for the
free passage of American domestic YES
sells. 4 separate vote was demanded,
Coyineton, of Maryland, Democrat, and
AnoWiton, of California, Republican.
'eadjng for free tolss
Upon the call 1f1 American repre-
Sehtatives voted for free tolls and 12S
representatives voted against
so far as Chairman Adamson and
o"e newspaper reporters have discov-
cred, not single representative Of the
smrmstlVe line has changed his mind
or altered his vote.
How the Senate
Voted on Bill.
The house bill went to the senate.
ne senate, with splendid and virile
-'.nereanism, in the amendment not
my exempted our domestic vessels,
'" all American vessels from tolls,
aug strengthened the clause which shut
''l fairoad- vessels from the
'"naL Conference afterward restored
'"l OH to its house proportions
"" August 9, 1912. the day the final
''e Oh the Panama canal was taken,
Tor Root offered an amendment to
line from the bill these words:
NO tolls shall be levied upon yes
SEES engaged in the coastwise trade
~, The United States"
he motion was defeated without
t t. ea,L as previously it had been re-
'..'eH when the bill was considered in
'l.Aiitee of the whole.
"e OIL then was put upon its final
to Is. e' - Dy d No'e ol -
o., paired
mis- was the senatorial alignment on
"a 7osl ~ And at this day, in despite
~. English protest and Tory clamor
e. Uans-continenta1 railway Hobbies
I.,. residential wabbling, no man can
h.. ms hand upon a single senator who
"eakened or changed or has given
mis- vote
tt.... me OF American senatorial SEN
'''Li as to canal rates is magnificent
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