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Show i oo ENGLANDHAS j SQUARE DEAL Three Lines of Action Open In Matter of Canal Tolls i Washington, Sept. 3. No less than three separate and distinct "lines of action" are opon lo the British government gov-ernment in dealing with the problem raised by the passing of the Panama canal tolls act. It Is assumed here that because there Is more than one available avenue for British shipping to seek relief, tho British foreign of-flco of-flco has said the notice of an appeal for arbitration was premature. President Taft has indlcalcd one mothod by which the problem may be attacked. Congress howver. did not think well ot the suggestion. That was to Include In the net a paragraph giving jurisdiction to American courts to paBs upon whether the act constituted a discrimination against British shipping. In violation of the Hny-Pauncoforte treaty. . Another means of dealing with (he British grievance o!d be to allow-any allow-any British ship owner to test under existing law in any United States court his right to use the canal under the treaty on terms of equality vith American shipowners. Chairman Adamson, of the bouse committee on interstate and foreign commerce, and many senators and other representatives represent-atives have declared that if British rights have been Infringe there already al-ready was u remedy in the statutes. Th.v last resort 'is relief through arbitration, although manv publicists have held that owing to the changes i of sovereignty over the canal zone land other events developed since the Hay-Paunceforto treaty. Great Britain Brit-ain has not actual right to demand arbitration. j As tho canal cannot be opened for , r year and a half, (here will be ample time for the British foreign office to j elect which method of relief fihall be employed. |