The Washington times., 1914-03-30
DOREMUS ASSA|LS
REPEAL ADVOCATES
ii thor Of Exemption Clause De-
TENDS 1t as Measure of
National Honor.
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ruary of the same year, $4,000 copies
Of an elaborate speech of Senator Root
were purchased at the Government
Printing Office and scattered broadcast
through the country. ! assert that not
there been such a vast expend ture of
money to defend a nations honor in
time OF peace 1t is quite significant
that the efforts to prove the United
States an International outlaw became
most frantic when our State Depart
ment was endeavoring to adjust the
mater by diplomatic negotiations with
good prospects of success"
Carnegie Peace Endowment.
Peace Endowment, with n $4,000 in
come from Steel trust bonds, was most
active in rescuing the national honor by
promoting the repeal Of the law that
Great Britain had admitted we had q
treaty right to enact
There are no doubt some estima BILE
gentlemen connected with the Carnegie
Peace Endowment" said Mr.. Doremus.
but as an institution 1t does not justify
own Government in an international
controversy
Mr.. Doremus devoted considerable
attention to the transcontinental rail-
roads and the necessity of competing
with them by water transportation
through the canal. If tolls are paid at
the canal. he argued. they will be but
added to the freight rate paid by the
American people. He disagreed that
free tolls meant subsidy
"Our merchant marine in the foreign
trade Is very weak. and, If We accept
the British Interpretation of the Hay
Psuncefote treaty. it always will be -
said Mr.. Doremus. In conclusion.
while Great Britain will not hesitate.
ships using tss eanal By direea sppre aer
against subsidies will prevent US from
adopting that policy. If We cannot
grant free transit to our ships through
the canal, its benefits will accrue to
England and not to ourselves
Vindicate American Diplomacy.
It do not believe that by the treaty
We bartered away to Great Britain
the constitutional power OF Congress
over interstate commerce through the
canal II the American people had
suspected that the treaty gave Great
Britain equal rights with us in the
dirt would have been turned on the
isthmus. / stand for a construction of
the treaty that vindicates American
diplomacy and safeguards our sover-
elgn rights
Despite the fact that Speaker Clark
viii attack the bill in a speech of an
hours duration tomorrow, Admin.stra-
ton supporters In the House claim that
the repeal proposal IL not in danger and
they Will have a majority of sixty votes
in the lower body. They figure that a
number of members who voted against
the gag rule"-carried by thirty-one
votee-are not against the repeal plan
itself, and that these men will run the
Administration strength at least sixty
votes above that Of the opposition
Effect On Elections.
There 10 some apprehension. however.
over the ultimate effect Of the Clark
speech. II the Speaker comes out in a
sledge-har,mer attack against the Ad-
niIistration it will but acceatuate the
bitterness now existing between the
factions and will widen the breach
among House Democrats. II Mr.. Clark
IS content to outline his position with
out attacking the Administration. the
party wound will soon heal. In fact.
1t is not believed that the tolls fight
will leave permanent scars anyway. un-
less It be that some other speaker assail
Speaker Clark as did Mr.. Hardwick, of
Georgia
Many Democrats are concerned, how
ever. concerning the effect the tolls
fight may have on the elections next
fail. The issue Of repeal and anti-repeal
il live one throughout the country,
and there are scores OF Democrats who
will vote for or against 1t with some
misgtvings. Whether. from a political
standpoint it is better to support the
President or the party platform is the
question the average Democrat has been
forced to ask himself and then answer
by his vote.
The members have been hearing from
home on both sides of the question, and
there Is undoubtedly quite number who
are worried over the 1914 campaign and
the prospect that Republicans and Pro-
gressives will take the stump and harp
on "surrender to Great Britain"