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Show 'CANALS COMMITTEE TO BEGIiHK Senators Who Have Introduced Intro-duced Substitutes for Sims Bill Will Be Heard First. KNOX MAY BE CALLED Works of California Attacks the President for Attitude on Tolls Question. WASHINGTON. April S. Formal consideration con-sideration of the administration bill to repeal the tolls exemption provision of the Panama canal act will begin on tho senate side of the capltol tomorrow, with hearings beforo tho intcroccanli: canals committee, to continue fifteen daytj. Senators who have Introduced substitute substi-tute measures will bo heard first, and they will be followed by representatives of commercial organizations of Pacific coast and gulf states who havo asked an opportunity to present their views. Whllo the committee preparations were under way today, preliminary debate on the tolls issue occupied the greater pari of the session In tho senate, where Senator Sena-tor "Works of California held the floor for hours. Asserting that the United States had tho rlRht under the treaty to prescribe such tolls as It sees fit for its own vessols, Senators Works criticised the position taken by President Wilson. President Responsible. "I think." ho said, "that the president deserves to be commiserated for having taken on himself this tcrriblo responsibility. responsi-bility. If wo aro to moke this sacrifice, and surrender our rights and our sovereignty sov-ereignty over tho canal, tho president alone will be responsible. Without his Insistence and influence thin repeal would nevor have been passed by either house of congress." Tho senator referred lo thofact that, no tolls are charged vessels of the United States navigating the canals and rivers on which the government has spent $700,-000,000, $700,-000,000, and asserted to Impose tolls upon up-on coastwise shipping passing through tho Panama canal would be. In violation of tho constitution. Senators Owen, Norrls, Chilton, Lewis, Reed, Fall. Weeks, Thomas, JCewlands and Root, who have Introduced tolls bills or resolutions, will appear before the canals ca-nals committee during the next day or two. Tho committee also has under consideration consid-eration a proposal to call former Secretary Secre-tary of State Knox and other officials familiar with tho canal situation. Asked to Appear. Telegrams were sent today to the following fol-lowing organizations and individuals who have asfcod for an opportunity to be heard, asking them to fix a tlmo when they wlil appear: H. B. Trezavant, general manager of the Association of Commerce, Now Orleans; Or-leans; Seattle. Wash., chamber of commerce; com-merce; L, A. Lewis, Portland, Ore.; "West Coast .Lumber Manufacturers' association, Seattle: "William R. Wheeler, San Francisco; Fran-cisco; George JI. Savage, president of the chamber of commerce, Tacoma. Wash.: New Orleans board of trade; South Bend, Wash., Commercial club, Aberdeen, "Wash., chamber of commerce; Poison Implement Im-plement company, Seattle; Rainier, Ore., Commercial club; Raymond. Wash., Commercial Com-mercial club; Centralla, Wash., Commercial Commer-cial club: Astoria, Ore,, chamber of commerce; com-merce; Sllverton Commercial club, Silver-ton, Silver-ton, Ore., and A. C: Little, mayor of Raymond, Ray-mond, Wash |