Investigation of Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings...on H.Res. 44...March 14, April 6, 19, May 23, June 6, 14, 1949 |
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... believe you said yesterday that the toll charge to commercial shippers represented approximately an amount equiv- alent to 21⁄2 days of sea expense whereas , if they went clear around Cape Horn , it would ordinarily take them 17 to 18 ...
... believe you said yesterday that the toll charge to commercial shippers represented approximately an amount equiv- alent to 21⁄2 days of sea expense whereas , if they went clear around Cape Horn , it would ordinarily take them 17 to 18 ...
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... believe at first that some sort of radical change was imminent . I am beginning to retreat a little from that position . Perhaps will operate substantially as is for a good many years . We would like to find out , if we can , what ideas ...
... believe at first that some sort of radical change was imminent . I am beginning to retreat a little from that position . Perhaps will operate substantially as is for a good many years . We would like to find out , if we can , what ideas ...
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... believe , be properly chargeable to the defense feature of the canal . Mr. FUGATE . Mr. Chairman , I think in that connection we are running head on into a very , very controversial matter in that it is particularly arbitrary . Everyone ...
... believe , be properly chargeable to the defense feature of the canal . Mr. FUGATE . Mr. Chairman , I think in that connection we are running head on into a very , very controversial matter in that it is particularly arbitrary . Everyone ...
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... believe that the American taxpayer should be called upon to provide funds for the operation of the Panama Canal for transit purposes . We believe the Canal should be self - sustaining from its toll receipts as to all expenses incurred ...
... believe that the American taxpayer should be called upon to provide funds for the operation of the Panama Canal for transit purposes . We believe the Canal should be self - sustaining from its toll receipts as to all expenses incurred ...
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... believe is being done at present . They set up a reserve for the_renewing of expendable parts . You cannot expend the ditch itself . I understand a proper reserve is being set up against those , and that is a businesslike way of ...
... believe is being done at present . They set up a reserve for the_renewing of expendable parts . You cannot expend the ditch itself . I understand a proper reserve is being set up against those , and that is a businesslike way of ...
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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 construction cost of operation deficit DREWRY DUNLOP employees engr facilities figures fiscal foreign shipping forgiven tolls FUGATE future Government vessels Governor Hay-Pauncefote Treaty increase intercoastal shipping intercoastal trade interest charge Isthmus of Panama locks Maritime Commission MELLEN merchant marine military MILLER national defense Navy NEWCOMER November 18 operating costs operating expenses Pacific Pacific Ocean Panama Canal tolls Panama Railroad Panama Railroad Company PARMELEE percent period present President PRINCE profit protection Public Law 280 purposes question reason recommend Republic of Panama revenues sanitation shipping interests Soo Canal statement STEESE subcommittee subsidy Suez Canal THOMPSON tion toll rate traffic transiting the Canal United Washington
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Page 74 - the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by the way of the River San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both the Lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific Ocean—the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, has conferred full powers on JOHN M. CLAYTON, Secretary of State of the United States;
Page 77 - 4. No belligerent shall embark or disembark troops, munitions of war, or warlike materials in the canal, except in case of accidental hindrance of the transit, and in such case the transit shall be resumed with all possible dispatch. Prizes shall be in all respects subject to the same Rules as vessels of war of the belligerents.
Page 76 - of America; Who, having communicated to each other their full powers which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following Articles: ARTICLE i The High Contracting Parties agree that the present Treaty shall supersede the afore-mentioned Convention of the 19th April, 1850.
Page 73 - IX. Ratification.] The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY, being desirous of consolidating the relations of amity which so happily subsist between them, by setting forth and fixing in a Convention their views and intentions with reference to any means of communication by Ship Canal, which may be constructed between
Page 75 - stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by 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
Page 77 - It is agreed that no change of territorial sovereignty or of the international relations of the country or countries traversed by the before-mentioned canal shall affect the general principle of neutralization or the obligation of the High Contracting Parties under the present Treaty. ARTICLE V The present Treaty shall be ratified by the President
Page 63 - passenger or cargo, 90 cents per net vesselton of 100 cubic feet each of actual earning capacity—that is, the net tonnage determined in accordance with the rules for the measurement of vessels for the Panama Canal. "3. On other floating craft, including warships, other than transports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply ships,
Page 75 - of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired in entering into this Convention, to accomplish a particular object, but, also, to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by
Page 78 - XXIII. Protection of canal. XXIV. Change in government, laws, etc. XXV. Coaling stations. XXVI. Ratification. ISTHMIAN CANAL CONVENTION The United States of America and the Republic of Panama being desirous to insure the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and the Congress of the United States of
Page 77 - 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. IN FAITH WHEREOF the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty and thereunto affixed their seals. DONE in duplicate at Washington, the 18th day of November, in the year of