Show COASTWISE E VESSELS SHOULD PAY CANAL L TOLLS SAYS EXPERT Commissioner Johnson Gives Reasons for Opposing Ex Exemption Exemption Ex- Ex emption Granted j 1 Jan 25 Prof o JL L Emory Emor K It R- R Johnson special commis- commis stoner loner o of the United States on Panama traffic and tolls In an address here tov to- to v night ald said that thet the owners of vessels Tessel I Sn the coastwise trade will derive i greater benefit from the Panama canal cana than the the- owners of any other vessels that double rates fixed b by Iho tho President President Press Press- dent would not pre prevent nt coastwise car- car Tiers ners from using that waterway an and I that In n view I w of ot these facts It seems just dust that who ho derive o Immediate benefit from rein tho the use of ot the canal should pay reasonable tolls toils Professor Johnson Johnton who spoke polo before the American Academy of Political l and Social Science studied the question of ot canal tolls for the tho government go before boor U Pre President Taft Tatt fixed the rate Leading Lending up UT to his conclusion that coastwise c vessels should not be bo eXempted exempted ex eX- empted from tolls Professor sor John Johnson on said fald the canal should be made commercially com corn self seU and continued contin- contin ii ed NInety nine shippers out of ot a a- ahun hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred will pa pay the same ame freight rates rate I Between time the two seabo seaboards whether there be tolls toils or ot no tolls toll charged th the I Individuals or corporations corporation who own and operate C coastwise vessels It willbe will willbe willbe be only onh the tho exceptionally large producers pro pro- and traders who shIp in full tull vessel loa loads s that will secure lower transportation rates because of ot toll exemption The owners ness of coastwise ships have been een relieved ed front from pa payment ment of ot tolls toll lor or th the purpose of aiding the m merchant marine under the time American flag nag The Tho 1 public funds however howe will rIll go to ship ship- owners that need no aid ald and not to he time owners omers of ot the time American vessels that serve or our foreign trades vessels that that need assistance There arc are n reasons why the United States State will seek to have hae a strong tine line liner oO of r vessels under the American flag n running from the tho west coast of the States Slates b by way of or Hawaii all Japan and China ChInn to the Philippines It would bo be desirable to have ha an equally strong line out to Australia from our west coast to have a. a line from the Atlantic and ancl gulf ul ports down the east cast coast of oC South South America to Buenos Ayres Ayres' and through the Panama canal down the west co coast Sl of ot South Am America to Valparaiso If It we are aro to give e the owners of or r American ships twenty lent million dollars during during- the thc next ton ton years ears the funds l better go o to build up such lines jas as have hac been mentioned d Instead of at beIng be- be Ing given to the owners or of the coast- coast 1 ships |