| Show URGES ENACTMENT OF PANAMA Bill Action on Tolls Can Be De Deferred Deferred De- De fe President Says to Congress Washington Aug 6 President G.-President Taft today In a a. special message to Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress urged Immediate enactment of ot legislation to provide an operating operating- force torce for tor tho the Panama canal the government government government gov gov- of ot the canal zone and the thc fixIng fixIng fix fix- Ing InS of ot maximum tolls The President Indicated that the thc question of ot free tree pass- pass ago to American ships might be bo de determined determined do- do later The discussions and differences of ot opinion which have arisen as to other phases of or canal policy wrote th the President should not In my opinion be allowed to delay action on these vital anc and pressing subjects The Panama canal bill was tal taken en up by the Senate toda today Senator Brandegee Brande- Brande gee declared he proposed to keep It continually before that body for tor final action Senator Thornton of ot Louisiana Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- In the opening speech held that the United States had the undoubted right under tho the British treat treaty to exempt ex ox- empt American coastwise trade from the tho payment of ot tolls toils Senator Jones of ot Washington also advocated advocated advocated ad ad- the remission of ot tolls toils to AmerIcan American Ameri Amen can ships x The United States has assumed assume all obligations for tor the neutrality of of the canal said Senator Jones and It can hardly be held ther therefore fore that tho the equal treatment guaranteed to other nations applies also to this nation B By a vote ote of ot three forty to fourteen the Senate adopted a provision giving th the President control of or all affairs at Panama with power to appoint a governor governor gov gov- to complete govern and operate operate operate oper oper- ate the canal and canal zone A vote probably will be ta taken n tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row on Senator Burtons Burton's motion to strike from the House bill that paragraph paragraph paragraph para para- graph which would exempt American coastwise vessels from the tho payment of or tolls S S I REPORTERS IN IX TilE THE SWIM A merr merry crowd of newspapermen got In Into to the swim at the Sanitarium late last night It was Journalists oven- oven Ing to quote the management The tank was well weli supplied with sulphur water Some thumpers of ot the trenchant trenchant trenchant trench trench- ant typewriter did not get into the liquid but got ot outside of ot sumptUOUs sumptuous sump sump- other things mor morn more nutritious than antiseptic |
