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Show WILL CAUCUS Ofl TQLLS QUESTION DEMOCRATIC SENATORS BELIEVE SUCH ACTION NECESSARY IN INTEREST OF HARMONY. Claim That Fact That Party Indorsed Toll Exemption Policy at Baltimore Balti-more Convention Should Not Ee Subject of Controversy. Washington. Repeal of the provision pro-vision of the Panama canal act exempting ex-empting American coastwise ships from tolls, favored by President Wilson, Wil-son, is to be made a subject of consideration con-sideration and action by a Democratic caucus of the senate. That this would be a wise and necessary nec-essary course in the interest of party harmony and the nation's foreign policy pol-icy is the conclusion of administration administra-tion senators who have discussed the subject with the president. iHgw soon the caucus will he called has not been determined, but several senators on Monday asserted the Democrats would get together tc weigh the situation as presented by the president and! settle for themselves them-selves the whole controversy. The fact that the Democratic party indorsed indors-ed the toll exemption policy at the Baltimore convention, these senators and President 'Wilson hold, should not be a subject of open controversy al this time because conditions involved involv-ed in the tolls question have changed since that time. The point to be settled set-tled is if the policy of tolls adopted by the nation through the action of congress should be reversed regardless regard-less of the declaration in the Baltimore Balti-more platform. |