...from attack and nothing else. It is true the article in question does provide that the canal shall be open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, but that was simply a statement of the consideration to each of the two contracting parties for the...

...second note, that the clear obligation of the United States under the treaty was to keep the canal open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, and to allow the ships of all nations to use it on terms of entire equality. It also contended that...

...railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall...the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, shnll also be open on like terms to the citizens and subjects of every other State which is willing...

...railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by Great Britain and the United States that the parties constructing or owning the same shall...that the same canals or railways, being open to the subjects and citizens of Great Britain and the United States on equal terms, shall also be open on...

...as are by this Article specified, it is alwa,ys understood by the United States and Great Britain, that the parties constructing or owning the same,...that the same Canals, or rail-ways, being open to tlie citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms, shall, also, be open...

...railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall...shall approve of as just and equitable; and that the sajne canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain...

...railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall...the aforesaid Governments shall approve of as just an.l equitable ; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the...

...practicable, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama";—it being understood— "that the parties constructing or owning...thereupon than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of,—and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States...

...railways as are by this article specified, it is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall...thereupon than the aforesaid Governments shall approve of aa just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects...

...equal terms" was understood to mean: "It is always understood by the United States and Great Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall...other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than are just and equitable; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects...