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Show KEEN INTEREST IN TOLLS FIGHT. Absorbs Attention of Congress to Greater Degree Than Any Question of Recent Years. Washington. Congress has not been so absorbed in a legislative issue is-sue in years as It is today in the controversy con-troversy over repeal of toll exemption for American coastwise ships passing pass-ing through the Panama canal. The exciting events or last week, which put on record a breach In the solidarity of the Democratic party, have caused no end of conflicting political po-litical predictions to increase the tensity ten-sity of Interest in the subject, but, with the- existing Democratic decision left out of the situation, it is one fraught with complications. |