Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-11
A MATTER OF CHOICE

Folks back home Arizona will be interested in the information contained in news despatches Senator Mark Smith will probably align himself with the Ad-
 inistration forces tolls struggle On the other hand Senator Ashurst takes his place in the Hearst ranks where there abundance of redhre, rockets and brazen calculated attract the at ention of those susceptible to claptrap campaigning The respective choice position of the Arizona sena. tors may may not be significant Every man is en- titled to express his own opinion a subject sena- Ashurss choice shows at least that he is consistent As in of the strike controversy in Michigan When he made his lamentabe attack the Constitu
 on Ashurst counts himself among those whose apepas are pregnant with sensatonalism and the ma terial for sefexploitation.
 Senators who are nfavor of repeal of the tolls ex- emption bill beginning to receive communications from their urging that the President be sustained by the Senate in determination vindi- cate the integrity of his country. Among the re. cruits for the repeal bill are reported be Senator Smith, Senator Sterling of North Dakota and Senator Myers of Montana These additions bring the list of Senators favorng the bill up orty-nine more than are necessary pass the The present roll call of the Senate contains ninetyhve names. Of  bill therefore unless there be change in present purposes the majority of the Senators by the time a vote is reached.
 Speculation the probable date of the final vote on tho issue such universal interest favors earlier date than at first expected. The attitude of Senator Borah ranking minority member of the committee which has the bill in charge, does not afford much encouragement the plans of Senator oGorman and his allies who determined to defeat the Repeal act by any legislative device provided by the unusually elastic rules of the Senate Senator Borah although positive in his conviction that the Repeal bill should not pass scorns to lend his aid any plan to withhold 1t the any than is absolute y necessary permit of it's proper consideration.
 It is Illuminating to quote briefly from recent speech by Hoke Smith of Georgia in reply to the arguments of opponents the canal tolls ure. He said
 Now what have done for the coastwise shipping interests already? We give them an absolute monopoly of the coastwise by prohibiting from foreign vessels engaged the coastwise trade of the United States Further. prohibit foregnbuit vessels though Amercan-owned from engaging the coastwiso Of the United States We have made them wealthy this small circle of owners builders with common interest.
 What does the canal do for them? It cuts down their shipping by than S35O ton, even if they are required to pay tolls It down their sailing time by onealf opens up fields of commerce to them giving every opportunity double their business or more It throws into lap millions of of bus mess now carried by the ranscontinenta railroads
 "If we exempt them from tolls it will deprive the Treasury of the United States of about S150O000 a year which they would contribute toward the main tenance of canal That money must come directly from the Federal treasury for reasonable man can say that we could make that charge upon other nations of the world without fagranty violating the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
 'Therefore the American people would be paying tc this select circeof ship and ship builders Sl50O, 900 year their pockets after already having in sured them past absolute monopoly of our ooastwise trade