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Show WILL NOT RECOMMEND REPEAL OF PROVISION WASHINGTON. Nov. 15, President Taft told ofllclal vlsitorB today he did not expect lo recommend 'to congress the repeal re-peal of the free toll provision made In the Panama canal bill last summer for American coastwise vessels. A second portion of the report of Prof. Emory R. Johnson, the expert upon whoso Investigation Investi-gation the president based his recent proclamation of tolls, became public tv-clav tv-clav and contains strong recommendations agalnot frco tolls for American ship3. Prof3sor Johnson's report did not dip rus.i the diplomatic aspect or the canal toll ma It or which wan proparcd before Great Britain enlpird Its protest against 1 1 he exmipun of toastwlso vessel. |