The Cairo bulletin., 1914-03-13
Repeal Of Exemption Clause in Pan.
ANA Canal Act is Surrender of
Nations Right.
U. S. GOVERNMENT VESSELS
WILL NOT EVEN BE EXEMPT
New Feature of Surrender to Great
Britain is Embodied in En-
larged Repeating Act.

Confdentially many members de-
clared in their opinion that the
President had been "ted to post
by the British ambassador" Gre
leader said that 1T was the moss
humiliating spectacle he had ever
seen in Congress. New York Her.
aid.
Washington, March 12.--Et is a
well known fact to every one in
Washington that the transcontincht-
al railroads prevented the construc-
tion of the isthmian canal for nearly
a quarter of century and now arc
the main factors in the attempt 10
secure : repeal OF the clause exempt
ing American Coastwise shipping
from paying tolls passing through
the Panama Canal.
These transcontnental and other
lines fear competition by water and
not only have they engaged in n
scheme to secure repeal of the
Panama exemption clause, but have
so far successfully retarded any ef-
fective legislation which viii pat
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in
su h a condition as Will enable them
to be carriers of the argosies of conf
merce.
If anv one should doubt tlat
railways fear waterway competition
Jet hin road the report of the Col.
missioner OF Corporations on Traua
portation by Water in the United
States Part ". December %, 1912,
and he convinced
Now this same selfish interest
would have American ships next year
when they take their way throu gl
the canal fling to the breeze the
Whito Flag of Surrender instead ol
the Stars and Stripes, Great Britain
debating the terms of humiliation
to a free born nation.
One Of the transcontinenal rail
roads, the Canadian Pacific railroad
ia an English corporation heavily
subsidized by the government. Il
is in fact, the only real transcontj'
mental railroad on the Western HeIh
ispherc which operates without con.
neotion and traffic agreements with
other roads from the Atlantic to thC
Pacific. That line operates from
Halifax to Vancouver where it con
meets with its own steamship line tt
NagasaKi, Japan.
Any sensible, unbiased persoi
knows that the railroads which now
convey most of the freight from
coast 10 coast viii be forced to re
duce their rates when the Panama
Canal comes into use UNLESS TOLL;
ARE CHARGED TO AMERICAN
SHIPS WHICH COMPETE WITT
THE RAILROADS.
For instance, if the water rate IRON
New York to San Francisco on 2c''
tain amount of freieht is ONE HUN
DRED. PLUS TEN DOLLARS FOl
CANAL TOLLS the railroad RAJ
would lie the same
Take off the ten dollars charge
as tolls for an American ship fn
the RAILROADS WILL BE CON
PEELED TO MAKE A REDUCTlU,
or TEN DOLLARS ADDED BE
CAUSE OF THE TOLL EXACTICN
Naturally this will reduce IL
profits IF the railroads but the shii
ping .Tblic would receive the ben:
fit. Consequently the railroads al
fighting for Il repeal of the claus
exempting American coastwise ye'
sells from the payment of tolls, 4..S
ONE OF THESE RAILROA'l
WHICH WILL BE BENEFITTE
WILL RE THE CANADIAN PACIFI
RAILROAD, which explains the az,
ed interest Great Britain has in tr.
ing to tell us on what terms W
shall administer our own canal.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-Tl