Excerpt from History of the American Nation, Vol. 7 The Toll Question. - Treaty With Colombia. - The Passage of the First Ship Through the Panama Canal. - Professor Moore Resigns. - Nobel Peace Prize to Senator Root. - Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Dies. - Japan Sends Ather Message in Reference to California Situation. - Ex-President Roosevelt Sues a Michigan Editor. - Ather Attempt to Pass an Immigration Bill With a Literacy Clause. - Secretary Bryan's Peace Treaties. - One Hundred Years of Peace With England. - Colonel Goethals Made First Goverr of the Canal Zone. - Colonel Gorgas Made Surgeon General. The question of canal tolls again came up at this time. England claimed that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty declared that this government was to give equal treatment to the ships of all countries in the canal. That country w claimed that to allow United States coastwise ships to use the canal without paying tolls was to violate that treaty. There was a strong feeling throughout the country that England was playing small politics in its insistence upon the understanding of the treaty and doing it for the benefit of railroad and shipping interests of Canada primarily, even though there was a feeling at the same time throughout the United States that coast wise ships should t be exempt and that the toll should be on foreign as well as domestic shipping. But England's insistence upon a point that was purely internal made many feel and hold a natural resentment. There was, however, a feeling too, that since we had signed such a treaty we must comply with its terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.