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Show WILSON WANTS QUICK ACTION, j Expresses Anxiety for Early Vote or. Panama Tolls Question. Washington. President Wilson asserted as-serted Monday that iu seeking the re-,..,! re-,..,! theJui;una tolls exemption he not only was 'li-'v CJK'S tion do that which it was bouuu m honor to do but was going the way of the majority in tho Democratic par-ty par-ty He pointed out that when the Panama canal act was passed, a majority ma-jority of tho Democrats then in the house voted against the tolls exemption exemp-tion and that only by a coalition of a minority of Democrats with a number of Republicans did the measure become be-come a law. Th's announcement was taken m administration circles as the president's presi-dent's answer to the argument that the Baltimore platform made the canal tolls exemption a Democratic measure. |