Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-01-11 | Page 6 | American Ships Will be Favored in Panama Canal

I AMERICAN SlIPS SHIPS WILL BE 8 FAVORED f c IN PANAMA CANAL I e JIN ASI-JIN TOX N Jan 11 Although lI Although the time foreign fOrtIn press has hiss condemned th the the- view of President Taft TaCt and And S Secretary of or War Unison on that meri American an shipping chipping using the Panama canal should be relieved of tolls no protest has reached reach d the state te department from an any European govern Sovern ment The Th legislation noce necessary ar lU to fl fix the thc on the the- un canal l traffic and to af affirm at- at firm the free use Ulf of or tho the waterway b by American shipping shipping- Is vigorously to be pressed In view of the urgent declaration declara declara- tIn tion by Colonel Goethals that Immediate action on the subject ct Is dem demanded by bythe bythe the th merchant marine of or tho the world The view leW taken by the administration th that lt through the subsidies paid b by for for- governments o to their own on shipping American merican shipping would he be placed d at atan atan an actual disadvantage ge were it not r relieved re- re entirely entire I of the these charges Xo to o foreign for tor eign protest prot Is IK likely to change the tho position position pol tion of or tho the government In this respect Representative Humphrey of Washington Washing Washing- ton has Introduced a a. bill providing that all 1111 American ships engaged In coastwise trade should go 10 through the canal free of or such charges except ships owned or controlled b by railroads l There can be doubt that hd the tho railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads are arc bending their eno energies to pre pre- v nt tnt the tho passage of American ships through the canal wIthout the tho payment Their of ot tolls toUs Mr Humphrey Humphre asserted motive Is apparent They do not want the competition There Timers would bo be no competition com corn petition if Ie tho the railroads 11 were permitted to own or control the vessels that pass through the canal Mr Humphrey Humphre declared the tIme admission of or coastwise ve vessels els through the canal without payment of toll would not conflict con con- fiat with treat treaty provisions with other nations