Investigation of Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Panama Canal Tolls, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.Res. 44 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 23
Page
... MILLER , Maryland CHARLES E. POTTER , Michigan FRANKLIN H. LICHTENWALTER , Pennsylvania EDGAR A. JONAS , Illinois CHARLES P. NELSON , Maine TOM B. FUGATE , Virginia EDWARD T. MILLER , Maryland II.
... MILLER , Maryland CHARLES E. POTTER , Michigan FRANKLIN H. LICHTENWALTER , Pennsylvania EDGAR A. JONAS , Illinois CHARLES P. NELSON , Maine TOM B. FUGATE , Virginia EDWARD T. MILLER , Maryland II.
Page 15
... Miller did not get back , but I am going to suggest to him that he read the record . General STEESE . As I told you , Mr. Chairman , my time is entirely at your service , and I have been living with this Panama Canal for 42 years . It ...
... Miller did not get back , but I am going to suggest to him that he read the record . General STEESE . As I told you , Mr. Chairman , my time is entirely at your service , and I have been living with this Panama Canal for 42 years . It ...
Page 17
... Miller . Mr. THOMPSON . The committee will come to order . In a previous informal meeting Mr. Frazer Bailey expressed his views to the committee . At the suggestion of the committee he has now written these views and they will be placed ...
... Miller . Mr. THOMPSON . The committee will come to order . In a previous informal meeting Mr. Frazer Bailey expressed his views to the committee . At the suggestion of the committee he has now written these views and they will be placed ...
Page 19
... MILLER . You are going to file those ? Mr. DREWRY . I have already circulated them , Mr. Miller . Mr. MORGAN . I have one copy in my pocket . This is what it looks like . [ From Shipping Survey , vol . 4 , No. 4 , April 1948 ...
... MILLER . You are going to file those ? Mr. DREWRY . I have already circulated them , Mr. Miller . Mr. MORGAN . I have one copy in my pocket . This is what it looks like . [ From Shipping Survey , vol . 4 , No. 4 , April 1948 ...
Page 24
... MILLER . I have one on my desk . Mr. MORGAN . I might add this , if I may : We do suggest in there the thought that insofar as the intercoastal trades are concerned , there certainly would be no violation of any treaty if the tolls were ...
... MILLER . I have one on my desk . Mr. MORGAN . I might add this , if I may : We do suggest in there the thought that insofar as the intercoastal trades are concerned , there certainly would be no violation of any treaty if the tolls were ...
Common terms and phrases
90 cents accounting American shipping amortized amount annual report Appropriations Army ARTICLE Bailey basis BURDICK Canal authorities Canal operations Canal Zone capital investment Chairman Clayton-Bulwer Treaty commercial shipping commercial users committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction cost of operation deficit DREWRY DUNLOP employees facilities figures fiscal foreign shipping forgiven tolls FUGATE future Government vessels Governor Hay-Pauncefote Treaty increase intercoastal shipping intercoastal trade interest charge LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY RAR locks Maritime Commission MELLEN merchant marine military MILLER national defense Navy NEWCOMER NGRESS November 18 operating costs operating expenses Pacific Panama Canal tolls Panama Railroad Panama Railroad Company PARMELEE percent period present President PRINCE profit protection purposes question RARY recommend Republic of Panama RESS revenues sanitation shipping interests Soo Canal statement STEESE subcommittee subsidy Suez Canal THOMPSON tion toll rate traffic transiting the Canal treaty United Washington
Popular passages
Page 21 - 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.
Page 83 - The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands within the limits of the zone above described and in addition thereto the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama, named Perico, Naos, Culebra and Flamenco.
Page 75 - Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof , and by His Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at London at the earliest possible time within six months from the date hereof.
Page 74 - April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States, without impairing the "general principle...
Page 77 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power, or authority.
Page 103 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
Page 76 - Colombia, and the sovereignty of such territory being actually vested in the Republic of Panama, the high contracting parties have resolved for that purpose to conclude a convention and have accordingly appointed as their plenipotentiaries, — The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State, and The Government of the Republic of Panama, Philippe...
Page 72 - The contracting parties will use whatever influence they respectively exercise with any State, States, or governments, possessing, or claiming to possess, any jurisdiction or right over the territory which the said canal shall traverse, or which shall be near the waters applicable thereto, in order to induce such States or governments to facilitate the construction of the said canal by every means in their power.
Page 73 - ... sufficient capital subscribed to accomplish the contemplated undertaking; it being understood that if, at the expiration of the aforesaid period, such persons or company be not able to commence and carry out the proposed enterprise, then the Governments of the United States and Great Britain shall be free to afford their protection to any other persons or company that shall be prepared to commence and proceed with the construction of the canal in question.