Investigation of Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Panama Canal Tolls, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.Res. 44 |
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... it should be done as a national defense project , and not as a commercial canal to handle the ocean traffic . General STEESE . Yes . In fact , the Governor , in his last recommendation of conversion to sea level states in there that ...
... it should be done as a national defense project , and not as a commercial canal to handle the ocean traffic . General STEESE . Yes . In fact , the Governor , in his last recommendation of conversion to sea level states in there that ...
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... as a matter of fact , the commissaries turn in a profit to the Treasury every year , and the shops and other utilities turn in - well , before the war it was running a little over a million dollars for all these business activities ...
... as a matter of fact , the commissaries turn in a profit to the Treasury every year , and the shops and other utilities turn in - well , before the war it was running a little over a million dollars for all these business activities ...
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I suppose you recognize the fact that the President thinks there should be an increase of tolls . General STEESE . Yes , sir . Mr. FUGATE . Looking at it from that view , is there some weakness about the operation that might be ...
I suppose you recognize the fact that the President thinks there should be an increase of tolls . General STEESE . Yes , sir . Mr. FUGATE . Looking at it from that view , is there some weakness about the operation that might be ...
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I think the information there is a start , perhaps , in finding out the true facts of the situation . When the true facts are known I think maybe we will be able to see more clearly what the inequities are . Mr. MILLER .
I think the information there is a start , perhaps , in finding out the true facts of the situation . When the true facts are known I think maybe we will be able to see more clearly what the inequities are . Mr. MILLER .
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If anyone had told Theodore Roosevelt or General Goethals that their Canal would be expected to yield an average commercial return of 3 percent , he would have received a practical lecture on the hard facts of our political objectives .
If anyone had told Theodore Roosevelt or General Goethals that their Canal would be expected to yield an average commercial return of 3 percent , he would have received a practical lecture on the hard facts of our political objectives .
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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.
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| Title | Investigation of Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee to Investigate Panama Canal Tolls, Eighty-first Congress, First Session, on H.Res. 44 |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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