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 Seiten |
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... CHAIRMAN . To the proposed exclusion of railroad - owned boats from passing through the canal . Senator PAGE . I am in hearty sympathy with Senator Thornton's statement as to a very prolonged discussion , but I think we ought to give ...
... CHAIRMAN . To the proposed exclusion of railroad - owned boats from passing through the canal . Senator PAGE . I am in hearty sympathy with Senator Thornton's statement as to a very prolonged discussion , but I think we ought to give ...
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... CHAIRMAN . I will put the question . Those in favor of the motion will say " aye , " contrary " no " [ putting the question ] . ( The motion was agreed to . ) The CHAIRMAN . What is the further pleasure of the committee ? Senator WALSH ...
... CHAIRMAN . I will put the question . Those in favor of the motion will say " aye , " contrary " no " [ putting the question ] . ( The motion was agreed to . ) The CHAIRMAN . What is the further pleasure of the committee ? Senator WALSH ...
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... Chairman , can we not take up , later on , the particular witnesses we are going to request to appear ? I thought the leading motive of these hearings was that we were going to grant the request of some people who wanted them . Senator ...
... Chairman , can we not take up , later on , the particular witnesses we are going to request to appear ? I thought the leading motive of these hearings was that we were going to grant the request of some people who wanted them . Senator ...
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... CHAIRMAN . Senator Owen , have you any desire to say any- thing with respect to your bill ? Senator OWEN . The bill I introduced is the same one which passed the House , so it is not necessary for me to discuss the bill which I ...
... CHAIRMAN . Senator Owen , have you any desire to say any- thing with respect to your bill ? Senator OWEN . The bill I introduced is the same one which passed the House , so it is not necessary for me to discuss the bill which I ...
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... CHAIRMAN . No. Senator SIMMONS . What is his name ? The CHAIRMAN . Dr. S. S. Huebner . He was the expert employed by the House Committee on Merchant Marine . I am also advised that the House committee has upward of 400 reports ...
... CHAIRMAN . No. Senator SIMMONS . What is his name ? The CHAIRMAN . Dr. S. S. Huebner . He was the expert employed by the House Committee on Merchant Marine . I am also advised that the House committee has upward of 400 reports ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.