Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals. United States Senate, 63rd Congress, 2nd Session on H.R. 14385, an Act to Amend Section 5 of "an Act to Provide for the Opening, Maintenance, Protection, and Operation of the Panama Canal and the Sanitation of the Canal Zone," Approved August 24, 19121914 - 1024 páginas |
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... give them our business . We urge delay until Pacific coast interests can be heard . Hon . JAMES A. O'GORMAN , United States Senate , Washington , D. C .: A. C. LITTLE , Mayor . RAYMOND , WASH . , April 4 , 1914 . The repeal of the law ...
... give them our business . We urge delay until Pacific coast interests can be heard . Hon . JAMES A. O'GORMAN , United States Senate , Washington , D. C .: A. C. LITTLE , Mayor . RAYMOND , WASH . , April 4 , 1914 . The repeal of the law ...
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... give to the country and to the Senate with reference to the arguments that are advanced , rather than any effect they might have in persuading members of the com- mittee . That charge has been made . For myself , I am entirely ignorant ...
... give to the country and to the Senate with reference to the arguments that are advanced , rather than any effect they might have in persuading members of the com- mittee . That charge has been made . For myself , I am entirely ignorant ...
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... give us his reasons for supporting this measure , or any other gentleman who entertains views along those lines ... gives to support them . Senator BRANDEGEE . The assertions which the President made in his message to Congress were based ...
... give us his reasons for supporting this measure , or any other gentleman who entertains views along those lines ... gives to support them . Senator BRANDEGEE . The assertions which the President made in his message to Congress were based ...
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... give up to a considerable extent the absolute control and regulation of the canal ? Senator NORRIS . Yes . Of course , that question is one involved in the construction of the treaty . Senator SIMMONS . As to whether we gave it up with ...
... give up to a considerable extent the absolute control and regulation of the canal ? Senator NORRIS . Yes . Of course , that question is one involved in the construction of the treaty . Senator SIMMONS . As to whether we gave it up with ...
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... give the British steamers engaged in the coastwise trade- The CHAIRMAN . No ; we are speaking of British vessels engaged in the over - seas trade . Mr. CHAMBERLAIN . That is the entire- Senator SIMMONS . Wait a moment . I understood you ...
... give the British steamers engaged in the coastwise trade- The CHAIRMAN . No ; we are speaking of British vessels engaged in the over - seas trade . Mr. CHAMBERLAIN . That is the entire- Senator SIMMONS . Wait a moment . I understood you ...
Términos y frases comunes
amendment American coastwise American ships American vessels Atlantic Britain British British Columbia canal tolls cargo cents CHAIRMAN CHAMBERLAIN charges Choate citizens Clayton-Bulwer treaty coastwise shipping coastwise trade coastwise vessels COCKRAN Colombia commerce committee competition construction cost discrimination exemption fact favor FORAKER foreign trade free tolls freight give Government Hay-Pauncefote treaty HUEBNER HUMPHREY Interstate Commerce Commission JOHNSON Lord Lansdowne Lord Pauncefote lumber matter ment nations neutralization operation OUTERBRIDGE Pacific coast Panama Canal Pauncefote pay tolls ports President Prof question rail railroads RANDALL RANSOM rates reason reference repeal Republic RING route rules San Francisco SCOTT seaboards Senator BORAH Senator BRANDEGEE Senator BRISTOW Senator OWEN Senator SIMMONS Senator THOMAS Senator THORNTON Senator WALSH Soo Canal sovereignty statement steamers steamship lines subsidy Suez Suez Canal territory tion tonnage tons traffic transcontinental railroads transportation understand United waterway York
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Página 650 - The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable.
Página 232 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 239 - America; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have, to or with any State or People, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Página 557 - Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms...
Página 459 - ... to any other practicable communications, whether bv canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Página 239 - Britain hereby, declare, that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship-canal ; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 486 - Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists; and, in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Página 476 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. VIII. That by way of further assurance the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions in a permanent treaty with the United States.
Página 550 - The canal shall never be blockaded, nor shall any right of war be exercised nor any act of hostility be committed within it. The United States, however, shall be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder.
Página 600 - Governments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, shall also be open on like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford.