Show f C CANAL NAL TOLL REPEAL t iL v LIKELY Will ILL PASS WASHINGTON IG TON ON March C. C Shall ShaH Shall conI congress congress' con con- I gress' gress reverse revere itself isel and I repeal peal tho the clause In the i Panama Panama canal act granting American Ameri Amen can coastwise vessels ve free rree passage through l Panama canal I This was as the question queston which presented presente itself to th the thc house houe anti and an senate senne toa today and andOl andon andon Ol on which the undivided attention of or the members of ot the two bodies ble wore were er centered in r response to President Wt Wilsons Wilson's personal per per- serial fonal appeal of yesterday Chairman Adamson of or the committee on Interstate and forel foreign n commerce lost no notime notime time toa today In preparing for the thc fight confronting con con- l' l fronting nj him and his committee iThe Te Sims bill bl to repeal the exemption cf clause uso was wat withdrawn from Hie flies files me where I It It was stored store when the house hue re rejected rejected rt- rt re- re it as an amendment to the canal act and ana was presented to the tho committee for re reconsideration Similar action acton on th the Hoot Boot bill bi by b the tho senate te committee on in- in canals canais was promised as that committee also had bad before H it the Chilton measure which would give gl e the president authority to to impose or suspend tolls b by proclamation a ton Ion I Tn In both i the Senate enato and hou house houle o it i Tas was predicted d that more than thal a sufficient number of or votes vote would bo boa assured in iii favor ta or of th the rP repeal l I It i. i t mis was v as admitted however hoc that there ou would c be bc vigorous opposition |