Panama Canal Tolls: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals. United States Senate, 63rd Congress, 2nd Session on H.R. 14385, an Act to Amend Section 5 of "an Act to Provide for the Opening, Maintenance, Protection, and Operation of the Panama Canal and the Sanitation of the Canal Zone," Approved August 24, 19121914 - 1024 páginas |
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... construction of the treaty of November 18 , 1901 , be- tween said Governments , commonly known as the Hay - Pauncefote treaty , is hereby recognized as presenting an international question suitable and proper for settle- ment by ...
... construction of the treaty of November 18 , 1901 , be- tween said Governments , commonly known as the Hay - Pauncefote treaty , is hereby recognized as presenting an international question suitable and proper for settle- ment by ...
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... construction of this treaty , taking the treaty itself without any of the side lights that can be gathered by looking up the construction that was given to it by the men who made it , that I would say that the treaty does not give us ...
... construction of this treaty , taking the treaty itself without any of the side lights that can be gathered by looking up the construction that was given to it by the men who made it , that I would say that the treaty does not give us ...
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... construction on it ourselves in the passage of that act . If you have that act here I will point it out to you . Senator BRISTOw . Eliminating any specific construction of lan- guage , you base that theory on the fact that the canal ...
... construction on it ourselves in the passage of that act . If you have that act here I will point it out to you . Senator BRISTOw . Eliminating any specific construction of lan- guage , you base that theory on the fact that the canal ...
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... construction of the treaty . Senator SIMMONS . As to whether we gave it up with reference to our own ships , I understand your position to be that is a question that is disputed ? Senator NORRIS . Yes . Senator SIMMONS . Between the two ...
... construction of the treaty . Senator SIMMONS . As to whether we gave it up with reference to our own ships , I understand your position to be that is a question that is disputed ? Senator NORRIS . Yes . Senator SIMMONS . Between the two ...
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... construction of the treaty ; yes . Senator BORAH . How would you get an impartial tribunal to de- termine that ? Senator NORRIS . I have just said- Senator BORAH . The tribunal you suggest would be composed of the two interested parties ...
... construction of the treaty ; yes . Senator BORAH . How would you get an impartial tribunal to de- termine that ? Senator NORRIS . I have just said- Senator BORAH . The tribunal you suggest would be composed of the two interested parties ...
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amendment American coastwise American ships American vessels Atlantic Britain British British Columbia canal tolls cargo cents CHAIRMAN CHAMBERLAIN charges Choate citizens Clayton-Bulwer treaty coastwise shipping coastwise trade coastwise vessels COCKRAN Colombia commerce committee competition construction cost discrimination exemption fact favor FORAKER foreign trade free tolls freight give Government Hay-Pauncefote treaty HUEBNER HUMPHREY Interstate Commerce Commission JOHNSON Lord Lansdowne Lord Pauncefote lumber matter ment nations neutralization operation OUTERBRIDGE Pacific coast Panama Canal Pauncefote pay tolls ports President Prof question rail railroads RANDALL RANSOM rates reason reference repeal Republic RING route rules San Francisco SCOTT seaboards Senator BORAH Senator BRANDEGEE Senator BRISTOW Senator OWEN Senator SIMMONS Senator THOMAS Senator THORNTON Senator WALSH Soo Canal sovereignty statement steamers steamship lines subsidy Suez Suez Canal territory tion tonnage tons traffic transcontinental railroads transportation understand United waterway York
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Página 650 - The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable.
Página 232 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 239 - America; nor will either make use of any protection which either affords or may afford, or any alliance which either has or may have, to or with any State or People, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Página 557 - Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms...
Página 459 - ... to any other practicable communications, whether bv 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 established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Página 239 - Britain hereby, declare, that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship-canal ; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Página 486 - Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists; and, in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Página 476 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. VIII. That by way of further assurance the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions in a permanent treaty with the United States.
Página 550 - The canal shall never be blockaded, nor shall any right of war be exercised nor any act of hostility be committed within it. The United States, however, shall be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder.
Página 600 - Governments shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, shall also be open on like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain engage to afford.