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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Do they have the same tolls for intercoastal ships as for ships going through the Canal in foreign trade ? General STEESE . Yes . That is our agreement with England , that all ships of all nations shall be treated alike , so that I ...
Do they have the same tolls for intercoastal ships as for ships going through the Canal in foreign trade ? General STEESE . Yes . That is our agreement with England , that all ships of all nations shall be treated alike , so that I ...
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Our association is composed of the principal intercoastal steamship operators and of other shipowners who are active in the foreign trades , and incident to their operations are users of the Panama Canal . We were concerned last year ...
Our association is composed of the principal intercoastal steamship operators and of other shipowners who are active in the foreign trades , and incident to their operations are users of the Panama Canal . We were concerned last year ...
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To increase tolls at this juncture would impose an added burden on our critically pressed intercoastal industry . A good case can be made for the forgiveness of all intercoastal tolls and a reduction of the laden rate on other ...
To increase tolls at this juncture would impose an added burden on our critically pressed intercoastal industry . A good case can be made for the forgiveness of all intercoastal tolls and a reduction of the laden rate on other ...
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INTERCOASTAL SHIPPING Probably the most persuasive argument for higher Panama Canal tolls is that foreign shipowners will be forced to bear a major part of the added cost . Worthy of note is the fact that in fiscal 1947 fully 51.7 ...
INTERCOASTAL SHIPPING Probably the most persuasive argument for higher Panama Canal tolls is that foreign shipowners will be forced to bear a major part of the added cost . Worthy of note is the fact that in fiscal 1947 fully 51.7 ...
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Many people have suggested Federal aid for intercoastal shipping but there have been few concrete proposals . Probably the most effective assistance could be provided through the elimination of all tolls on transits of intercoastal ...
Many people have suggested Federal aid for intercoastal shipping but there have been few concrete proposals . Probably the most effective assistance could be provided through the elimination of all tolls on transits of intercoastal ...
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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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