The

Panama Canal Tolls
Controversy

OR

A Statement of the Reasons for the
Adoption and Maintenance of the
Traditional American Policy in the
Management of the Panama Canal

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY

VILLIAM J. BRYAN, Secretary of State
OSCAR STRAU, Member of the Hague Court
WM. HUGHES, United States Senator

By

HUGH GORDON MILLER

of the New York Bar, former Special Assistant
to the Attorney-General of the United States

and

JOSEPH C. FREEHOFF, PH. D.

Statistician with the Public Service Commission
for New York City

BOSTON

CHAPPLE PUBLISHING COMPANY, LTD.

1914

5.9.5. Smith

Dedicated

to

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON (DEMOCRAT)

who in his efforts to secure the repeal of the tollsexemption clause of the Panama Canal act, took and successfully maintained as exalted moral, courageous and patriotic a position as was ever taken and maintained by any Executive of any nation;

SENATOR ELIHU ROOT
(REPÚBLICAN)

former Secretary of State and authority on
international questions, whose persistent efforts
and unanswerable arguments contributed most in
support of the President to secure the repeal of
the foregoing statute; and

HON. OSCAR S. STRAUS

(PROGRESSIVE)

Minister and late Ambassador to Turkey; member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, succeeding Benjamin Harrison, exPresident; attorney, author, statesman and authority on matters of diplomacy, for using his great influence in favor of the repeal of the foregoing clause repugnant to the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.

CONTENTS

Introduction by William J. Bryan

Introduction by Oscar S. Straus

Introduction by William Hughes

Chapter I.-The Meaning of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

Chapter II.-Legal and Moral Aspects of Tolls Exemption

Chapter III.-The Financial Aspects of Tolls Exemption

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