No Arbitration On Canal.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 30, 1912:
Believed Administration Will Decline Britain's Request on Tolls Issue.
    WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.— Although the State Department will authorise no statement to that effect it is understood here that the Administration will decline to permit the question of the right of the United States to relieve its own shipping from tolls in the Panama Canal to go to arbitration, as proposed by Great Britain.
    This position of the Government, it is said, may not be developed fully for some time.