Evening star., 1914-05-06
DECLARES REPEAL
WILL NOT SATISFY
Senator Bradley Says Great
Britain Viii! Make Further
Demands.
PRESIDENT AND CARNEGIE
COME IN FOR CRITICISM
Kentuckian. Speaking in Senate,
Urges That Tolls Exemption Re
!, pealer Be Not Passed.

a prediction that should Congress re-
peal the clause of the Panama canal act
exempting American coastwise vessels
from the payment of tolls through the
Panama canal Great Britain will make
still further demands upon the United
States in regard to the canal was made
in the Senate today by Senator Bradley
of Kentucky. He urged the Senate not
to pass the repeal bill
Should this bill pass. said Senator
Bradley. this government will be placed
upon an exact equality with every other
nation Substantial as these concessions
are. they will not satisfy Great Britain,
who protests against the exclusion of her
railroad or trust-owned ships from the
canal and against free tolls to Panama
BY the last objection she strikes at the
very existence of the canal, as under
its provisions We secure the title from
Panama to the territory through which
the canal is constructed.
II am much in favor of strictly
observing the nations honor as any mem
ber of this body. but do not believe that
there is any foundation for the charge
that in enactinS the present law Congress
was guilty of violating the treaty in the
slightest degree. l am equally well sat
isfied that the passage of the proposed
bill will not only prevent-will not only
seriously preventive enlargement of our
merchant marine. but will seriously Grip
pie our already Insignificant and languish-
ing commerce"
Pays Compliments to Carnegie.
Senator Bradley paid his compliments
to Andrew Carnegie. He spoke of the
Carnegie Peace Foundation and the part
that organization has psayed in spreading
through the country the statement that
the United States has no right to exempt
American coastwise vessels from the pay
ment of tolls.
Mr. Carnegie continued Senator
Bradley, conceived the idea some years
ago of uniting this country and Great
Britain under the name of the United
States of Great Britain and selected his
agencies for bringing it about, operating
always under the sacred name of
peaceC?''
Senator Bradley referred to book by
Andrew Carnegie entitled triumphant
Democracy in which Mr.. Carnegie advo-
Gated the union OF the United States and
Great Britain and declared that of course
Great Britain would always be first in
the union.
and this man Carnegie" said Senator
Bradley hand IN hand with the ship
owning and transcontinental railroads
and the coterie that surrounds him are
trying to persuade American citizens to
surrender the sovereignty and honor of
their country.
Senator Bradley quoted from former
Senator Bard. whose amendment to the
Hay Pauncefote treaty providing for the
exemption Of American coastwise vessels
from the payment of tolls was defeated
in the Senate at the time of the consider
alton of the treaty, to the effect that it
was generally conceded by senators at
th.. time that il was not necessary to
insert in the treaty any provision for
the exemption of these vessels. He con-
demned the course adopted by President
Wilson regarding the tolls question
Criticises President Wilson.