The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-12-28
! The Great
!; Treaty......


ed was ratified by the Senate today.
The vote was 50 to Is.
The treaty provides that the United
States is to have control of the
Nicaragua canal and take any
steps it may find necessary to de-
fend it.
At twenty minutes of 2 O'Clock to-
day the Senate doors were closed upon
the public and the Senate went into
executive session for the last time up
on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. The
vote was to have been taken at 3
o'clock, but there were certain Sena-
tors who desired to make final sugges-
tions upon different provisions of the
treaty, and there were still further
amendments to- be offered.
The friends of the treaty counted up
on being able to defeat all the amend
ments except those reported by the
committee on foreign relations,
and said they had majority
Of from six to ten pledged to that
end.
The bell rang for the first roll call
at two minutes past three O'Clock and
a vote was taken upon the amend
ments suggested by the committee on
foreign relations. They were adopt
ed. The first of these amendments
adds the words (Which is hereby
superseded" after the words CLAY
ton-Bulwer convention" i'm The pre-
amble to article ,, making il read as
follows: 'The high contractiag parties,
desiring to preserve and maintain the
general principle of neutraizing
established in article of the Clayton
Bulwer convention. which is hereby
superseded adopt as the basis of such
naturalization the following rules,
substantially as embodied in the con-
vention between Great Britain and
certain other powers, signed at Con-
stantinople, October 20, 1888, for the
free navigation of the Suez maritime
canal"
AL the amendments other than those
of the committee on foreign relations
were voted down.
The text of the treaty as amended is
as follows;
The United States of America and
her majesty, the queen of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land, empress of India, being DESTROYS
to facilitate the construction of ship
canal to connect the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, and to that end to re-
move any objection which may arise
oat OF the convention of April Is,
1850, commonly called the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, to the construction of
such canal under the auspices of
the government of the United States,
without impairing'the general prin-
ciple" of the naturalization in article
OF that convention, for that purpose
appointed as their plenipotentiaries
The president ri the United States
John Hay, secretary OF state of the
United States of America, and her
majesty, the queen of Great Britain
and Ireland, empress of India, the
Right Honorable Lord Pauncefote, G..
G. b., G. G. NJ. g., her majesty's am
bassador eXtraordinary to the United
States: who, having communicated to
each other their full powers, which
were found to be in due form, have
agreed upon the following articles;
Article 1T is agreed that the canal
be constructed under the auspices
OF the government of the United
States, either directly at its own cost,
or by gift or loan of money to indi
viduals or corporations or through
subscriptions to or purchase of
stocks, or shares, and that, subject to
the provisions of the present conven-
ton, the government shall have |
and enjoy all the rights incident to
such construction, as well as the en-
elusive right of providing for the reg.
ulation and management of the canal.
Article 1.-THE high contracting
parties, desiring to preserve and
maintain the general principle" of
naturalization established in article
OF the Clayton-Bulwer convention,
which convention is hereby superseded
adopt as the basis of such neutraliza-
ton the following rules, substantially
us embodied in the convention between
Great Britain and certain other
powers, signed at Constantinople,
October 20, 1888, for the free naviga-
ton Of the Suez marine canal. that
is to say:
First, The canal shall be free and
open, in times of war as in times of
peace, to the vessels of commerce and
of war Of all nations on terms of en-
Tire equality, SO that there shall be no
discrimination against any nation or