Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1914 — NOTABLES IN THE LIMELIGHT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTABLES IN THE LIMELIGHT

Representative W. C. Adamson For Canal Tolls.

A toll free Panama canal for American coastwise vessels, as provided by the law of 1912. is not favored by Representative William 0. Adamson of Georgia, chairman of the house interstate and foreign commerce committee. He has proposed in a resolution to congress a suspension of the existing law for free tolls to American ships for two years that the cost of operation of the Panama canal may be ascertained. During these two years American ships, coastwise and ocean freighters, would pay the same tolls as all foreign ships. The president is given authority to pass on the relative cost of using the Panama canal and its maintenance and at the 1 end of two years may decide whether the tolls thus collected will be more than sufficient for maintenance of cost or operation of the 'anal. In this event the president is to enforce the law for free canal tolls for American ships. Explaining his resolution. Mr. Adamson said: “If it is demonstrated that the tolls ere sufficient to spare the tolls to the coastwise trade the state department will be allowed time to adjust questions growing out of the treaty stip uiations, and if the advocates of exemption are found to have been correct in their contention as to a sufficiency of revenue and the diplomatic questions are settled in their favor an executive order will then put the exemption into force." Since he was to congress from Georgia eighteen years ago. William Charles Adamson has devoted his ent ire timd to official duties. Before that time he was a lawyer and earned Iris schooling money on the farm •and by driving a cotton wagon. He was born at Carrollton, Ga.. and educated at Bowdon college, Bowdon. Ga. Art at the Panama Fair. \ isitors to the Panama-Pacific International exposition at San Francisco in 1'.)1.~> will be treated to an elaborate display of the works of old masters in painting and sculpture. It is stated that so extensive and representative a collection has never before -been exhibited in the United States. John E. I». Trask, chief of the exposition department of fine arts, who has recently

returned from a tour of Europe, reports wonderful success in his quest for art exhibits to be shown at San Francisco. More than 350 original paintings of the old masters from private and national galleries in Europe are promised. Many of these paintings will be shown in their original form for the first time in the United States. - John Ellingwood Donnell Trask is a native of Brooklyn. N. Y.. and since 1895 has been connected with the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts as secretary and manager. In 1910 he was United States commissioner general at the international exposition of fine arts at Buenos Aires.

JOHN E. D. TRASK.