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Show CARNEGIE TAKES A HAND. Money Supplied From Former Steel King's Endowment to Aid Repeal of Tolls Exemption. Washington. How the Carnegie endowment for international peac has aided in the fight for repeal of the tolls exemption clause of the Panama Pan-ama canal act was revealed Friday before the senate lobby committee. Dr. James Brown .Scott, secretary, and a member of the board of directors of the endowment, appearing under sub-pena sub-pena with books and papers, told the committee that a total of more than $30,000 had been appropriated for ' circulation of Panama canal literature." litera-ture." Detailing the efforts of the endowment. endow-ment. Dr. Scott said 1,000,000 copies of a pamphlet urging repeal of the exemption ex-emption clause and signed by practically practi-cally the entire directorate had been sent throughout the country, and 700,-000 700,-000 copies of Senator Root's speech in the senate urging the repeal had been mailed under the senator's frank. |