...is very clear. It has been quoted, but I would -like to recall it to the attention of the Chamber. "The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of...rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall he no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions...

...United States." The clause in the second treaty regarding the rights of nations reads as fo)Jows : " The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and war of all nations which shall agree to observe these rules, on terms of entire equality ; so that...

...claiming that the Panama Canal Act violates the following provision of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty : " The canal shall be free and open to- the vessels of...and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terniP of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its...

...ratified contained no references to fortifications. The existing Hay-Pauncefote treaty stipulates that ''the canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and war 37 of all nations"; but the United States is the sole guarantor of the neutral use of the water-way...

...the matter be brought before the Hague Tribunal. The exact words of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty are: "The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of...observing these rules, on terms of entire equality." To maintain that this means "all nations other than the United States," ie that the treaty only meant...

...the one but not the other. "And how are we to deal with those words 'observing these rules'? It says, 'The vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules.' "Was the United States declaring to the world that it would admit its own ships to the canal if it,...

...of war as in time of peace to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations," a stipulation that the canal shall "be free and open to the vessels of commerce and war of all nations observing these rules," without the addition of the words "in time of war as in...

...canal. ARTICLE III. The United States adopts as the basis of the nentralization of such GREAT RRITAIN. ship canal, the following rules substantially as embodied...rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall he no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions...

...well as the exclusive right of providing for the regulation and management of the canal. ARTICLE III. The United States adopts, as the basis of the neutralization...shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and pf war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no...

...of Constantinople, signed the 28th October, 1888, for the free navigation of the Suez Canal, that 4s to say : 1. The canal shall be free and open to the...war of all nations observing these rules, on terms 61 entire SquaTIty7"so that there shall be no discrimination against any such naI tion, or its citizens...