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Show PUBLIC HEARINGS ON TOLLS BEGIN Senators Who Have Introduced Intro-duced Bills Heard First Taft Investigators to Testify Later. Washington, April 9. -Public hearings hear-ings were begun today before the senate canals committee on the repeal of the Panama tolls exemption. Sen ators who have Introduced bills and resolutions on tho subject were first heard. Senator Norrls, Republican, spoke on his amendment to reaffirm the right of the United States to discriminate discrim-inate In favor of its own ships if it chooses to do so, and to direct the president to submit the controversy to arbitration. He opposed the exemption ex-emption as a subsidy and said he did not want congress to construe the treaty and foreclose the right of the United States to control the canal. Senator ThomaB, Democrat, made a statement supporting his proposal to ninkc the canal free to all ships o all nations. Commissioner Chamberlain, of tho navigation bureau, Professor S, S. I-Iuebner and Dr. Emery Johnson, who Investigated tho tolls question for President Taft will be heard later. Senator O'Gorman said the witnesses witness-es from New Orleans and the Pacific coast would be unable to appear before be-fore the end of the week. Senator Newlands, Democrat of Nevada, Ne-vada, Issued a statement late today announcing that he would oppose the ropeal bill. He said he did not believe be-lieve exemption of American coastwise coast-wise shipping from canal tolls violated the llay-Pauucefote treaty, and declared de-clared "It would be unconscionable on the part of England, the chlet beneficiary, to insist that we should abandon a settled domestic policy in order to meet a str'nined construction of the treaty." Andrew Carneg.:e Applauds. Washington, April 9. Andrew Carnegie Car-negie was an Interested spectator In the house gallery today and applauded applaud-ed vigorously a speech supporting the Panama tolls exemption repeal by Representative Volliner of Iowa, the newest member. Later Mr. Carnegie visited the White House. Mr. Carnegie visited the capltol with Theodore Gilraan, secretary of a dam and power company at Keokuk, Iowa, and had a long talk with Chairman Chair-man Adamson of the house committee commit-tee on Interstate commerce. He predicted pre-dicted that the repeal bill would pass the senate and Jokingly suggested that "only pryer will help some of those Democrats In the senate, the way they are behaving now' |