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APRIL 5, 1912
The Commoner.
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WASHINGTON NEWS
The Chicago Tribune correspoh
pondent says: A bill for the gov
prnment of the Panama canal zone
and the operation of the jcanal itself
was agreed on by the majority of the
house committee on interstate com-t.-eree.
The main provisions of the
bill follow:
It gives to the president the right
to fix tolls within certain limits, a
maximum of $1.25 a ton being pre
scribed, with a minimum sufficient to
maintain and operate the. canal.
No preference in the rate of tolls
is to be given American owned mer
chant ships.
Ships owned or controlled by rail
roads and operated with the intent
to restrain trtde or ships engaged in
any agreement or combine forbidden
to pass through the canal.
Dismissal of the m canal commis
sion, the president b'eing authorized
to appoint, for a four year term, a
governor of the zone at an annual
salary of $10,000.
The bill wts adopted by the com
mittee by a vote of 14 to 4. The
minority, composed of Representa
tives Knowland, California; Brous
sard, Louisiana; Calder, New York;
and Doremus, Michigan, will hand
in a report, which will differ mainly
from the majority on the question of
toll charges.
The provision in the majority
agreement relating to rates is as
follows:
"Charges may be based upon the
gross or net registered tonnage, dis
placement tonnage, or otherwise,
and may be based on one form of
tonnage for warships and another
for ships of commerce, but the tolls
shall not exceed $1.25 per ton, based
upon the net registered tonnage for
ships of commerce; nor be less than
the estimtfed proportionate cost of
the actual operation of the canal "
The prohibition clauses, sum
marized, include:
That it shall be unlawful for ships
to pass through the canal which are
"owned, leased, operated, or con
trolled by any railroad company en
gaged in interstate commerce or by
any other corporation in which
such railroad company has any in
terest whatsoever."
That it shall be unlawful for any
ship to pass through the canal if the
owner "shall be engaged in any
agreement, combination, ship ring,
or conference with intent to restrain
or prevent or with the effect of re
straining or preventing competition,
through the Panama canal among
ships, ship lines, or ship companies,
or between railroads and such ships,
ship lines, or ship companies."
It was announced at Harmon head
quarters here that Governor Harmon
would not consent to the placing of
his name on the ballots of the Mas
sachusetts preferential primaries
April 30, since Governor JToss had
decided to permit the use of his
name as a candidate for the demo
cratic presidential nomination.
Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin
"was "vindicated" in the senate by a
vote of 40 to 34. By this vote the
Eenate rejected the charge that
$107,793 which the senator admitted
spending in the Wisconsin primaries
had been used corruptly. The As
sociated Press report says: Twenty
eight republicans and twelve demo
crats held Senator Stephenson's
election a valid one, eighteen demo
crats and sixteen republicans voting
to declaro his election corruptly
obtained.
The ballots .were cast as follows:
For Stephenson: Bradley, Bran-
degee, Briggs, Burnham, Burton,
Clark of Wyoming, Crane, Curtis,
Dillingham, Dupont, Gamble, Hey
burn, Lippitt, Lodge, Lorimer, Mc
Cumber, McLean, Nixon, Oliver, Pen
rose, Perkins, Richardson, Hoot,
Smoot, Sutherland, Warren ami Wet-
more, republicans: Bankluwwi. fhn.(
ton, Fletcher, Foster, Johnston, New
lands, Overman, Pomerene, Rayner,
Smith of Maryland, Watson and
Thornton, democrats.
Against Stephenson: Borah,
Bourne, Bristow, Brown, Clapp,
Crawford, Cummins, Dixon, Gronna,
Jones, Kenyon, La Follotte, Poin
dexter, Smith of Michigan, Town
send and Works, republicans; Bryan,
Chamberlain, Culberson, Gardner,
Hitchcock, Johnson, Kern, Lea, Mar
tine, Myers, O'Gorman, Owen, Percy,'
Shivly, Smith, of Georgia, Smith of
South arolina, Stone and Williams,
democrats.
The pairs were: Nnlsnn wlfh
Bacon, Gallinger with Clarke of Ar
kansas, Guggenheim with Davis, Cul
lum with Simmons, Paynter with
Gore and Bailey with Reed, the first
named in each case being favorable
to Stephenson and the last named
against him.
The senators unrecorded and un
paired were Martin and Swanson,
Virginia; Taylor of Tennessee, Till
man of South Carolina, and Mr.
Stephenson of course refrained from
voting. For Senator Taylor Mr. Lea
explained that ho was too ill to be
consulted.
Senator Robert Taylor, senior
senator from Tennessee, died at a
Washington hospital following an
operation.
MR. BRYAN IN WISCONSIN
Editorial in the Wisconsin (Madi
son) State Journal: Sixteen years
ago the press was guessing and petty
bets were being wagered on who
would be the democratic presidential
nominee. The situation was not un
like that which confronts both par
ties today. When the democratic
convention was through with its
work in Chicago there was but one
question raised from the Berkshire
Hills to Lake Tulare, and that was
Who is Bryan?
The petty bets and the press
guesses were all wrong. Disap
pointed politicians accused Mr.
Bryan of turning a "trick," of
springing upon the convention a well
rehearsed speech. The opposition
party called him a demagogue, an
application that is familiar to all
great men. Mr. McKinley had been
an advocate of the silver cause for
many years in congress in accord a
republican platform plank, In 1892
he had made a better free-silver
speech in Toledo than Bryan had
made at the convention in Chicago.
But that was easily forgotten. Bryan
had, with his speech, captured the
nomination over the heads of party
bosses; that was an unpardonable
sin. But it proved that the most
skilled machine politicians some
times at least, fail in their best laid
plans to "walk away with the con
vention." A man with no other am
munition than a human appeal to the
people still has a chance and a place
in the political life of this republic.
Mr. Bryan not only carried the
largest popular vote in that election
but he carried it against the most
stupendous campaign fund that had
ever been corralled in the history of
American politics, a campaign fund
that exceeded the total campaign
funds of all the national campaigns
of the republican party. It does not
matter what you call a man who can
do this. Namo him a trickster, a
demagogue, or anything else, ho is
still a good deal of a man.
During the past sixteen years, Mr.
Bryan has been three times the na
tional standard bearer of his narlv.
and three times the standard bearer
against defeat. Parties seldom set
up as their leader a fallen leader.
It is easy to bo renominated as a
party standard bearer with victory
for a background. This record is
also an unprecedented story in the
history of American politics. And
it doesn't matter what you may call
that three-time leader. The fact
that ho was three times loader of a
majority party in a republic of 90,
000,000 people makes him a whole
lot of a man.
Mr. Bryan is a traveled student
and observer of governments. As
a student he has something to say;
as an observer he has something to
report. It matters littlo whether one
may believe himself to bo in agree
ment with Mr. Bryan's theories o.'
government or not. He who riosplioi
the obflcrvatioiiH rnd doelarutlona ot
such a man as this injuros only him
self. Madison welcomos her dis
tinguished visitor today.
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