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A STOREY PASSAGE
Various Opinions
Qn the Senate's Amendment
VANCOUVER, Saturday.
The Panama Tolls Bill passed the
Lower House without formality.
A joint session accepted the amend
ment reserving to- the United ' States
rights under the Hay-Pauncef o to and
other Treaties.
President Wilson will probably sign
on Monday.
Before finally deciding to act with
out, a joint sessions' of both Houses-
rejected a proposal to attach to the
Biil a flat declaration of the United
States' right to exempt her own ves
sels, and also assenting ' to her sove
reign rights "over the Canal.
Senator Underwood declares that
the Senate's amendment is a blunder.
Senator Maun asserted that the
amendment left the whole -question
of the .United States' real rights
open, for future decision.
Senator Glass attacked the Demo
cratic lc-aders, who opposed the mea
sure, stigmatising the assaults made
upon President Wilson as outrageous.
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