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Show PLEADS FOR REPEAL OF I0LLS CLAUSE PRESIDENT DECLARES EXEMPTION EXEMP-TION CLAUSE REGARDED AS VIOLATION OF TREATY. Irrpressicn Seems to Prevail That the Wijr, of President Wilson Will Be Granted. Althought There Will Be Vigorous Opposition. Washi.-gtc a --'resident Wilson, be-fie be-fie congress on March 5. pleaded fir repeal of the provision of the Pan-aii.. Pan-aii.. canal act which exempts American Ameri-can coastwise shipping from tolls. He tersely ass.-rted that his reason for asking the repeal was that everywhere excipi in the United States the tolls exi n.ptii u was regarded as a violation of the llay-Pauncefone treaty, and he further asked it in support of the administration's ad-ministration's general foreign policy. That the president's request will he granted there seemed to be little doubt, despite the fact there will be vigorous opposition to the repeal both in the senate and the house. The fiist action in the question will be taken in the house, when the interstate inter-state and foreign affairs commission will meet to consider the message. It was stated that the committee will present a bill to repeal the exemption provision. In the senate on Thursday, Senator Chilton, a Democratic member of the inter-oceanic canals committee, introduced intro-duced an act which would give the president authority to make or suspend sus-pend tolls by proclamation and to prescribe pre-scribe their tolls In cases exempted. This would put it up directly to the president to eliminate the exemption. Aside from the bearing of the message mes-sage on the Panama tolls question some of the phrases used by the president pres-ident attracted widespread comment in congressional quarters as relating to foreign relations in general. In some quarters there was a disposition disposi-tion to regard some of his statements in the nature of a warning on the difficulties dif-ficulties involved in "other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer consequence." |
