The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-12-28
AN AMERICAN CANAL.
Senate Ratifying the New
Treaty Supersedes Clayton
Bulwer Pact Other Foreign
Powers Ignored.

minutes lbI tllt tNtildtt tHlN dIttI-
noon to ratity The Ilay-Pauuce-
fote treaty. winch has been under
debate in executive session for
nearly two weeks.
During the seventy minutes
mentioned there were six roll
calls aud several viva vore votes.
The FIST i've of the rolI-callS
were on amendments offered 10y
individual Senators, and the last
one was on the resolution to rat
ify the treaty as amdLdcd. All
the amendments. except those
offered by Senator Foraker aud
reported By the Committee on
Foreign Relations. were voted
down by majorlticS averaging
about - The ratification rcso
luton was adopted 10y vote of
% to Is.
The full text of the treaty, as
ratified by the United States
Senate, is as follows, the itaIiclz
ed paragraph being what is gen
orally known Is the Davis amend.
ment:
The United States Of America
and her Majesty the Queen Of the
United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and ireland, EmpreSs of In
dia, being DESTROYS to facilitate
the construction of a snip canal
to connect the Atlautic and Pa
ciiic oceans and to that end to
remove any objection which may
arise out of the convention of
4 April -, 1870, commonly called
the Clayton Bulwer treaty, to the
construction of such canal under
the auspices OF the government
of the United States without i'm
pairing the general principle7
of naturalization established in
Article VIII of that convention,
have for that purpose appointed
as their plenipotentiarieS:
The President Of the United
States, John Hay, Secretary of
State Of the United States Of
America,
Aud her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, Rt.,
Hon. Lord Pauncefote, &. c. b.
q. G. NJ. g., her MaieStl's Am.
baSSad0r Extraordinary and Plen-
ipOtentiary to the United States,
Who, having communicated to
to each other their full powers,
which were found to be in due
and proper form, have agreed
upon the following articles:
ARTICLE |.
/ 1t is agreed that the canal may
be constructed under he auspices
OF the government of the United
States, either directly at its
own cost, or by gift or loan of
money to individuals or corpora
tionS, or through subscription to
or purchase of stock and Of
of shares of stock and, that. sub.
/ .lect to the provisions of the pres
ent convention, the said govern
ment shall have and enjoy all the
rights incident to such CONSTRUCT
ton as well as the exclusive right
OF providing for the regulation
and management of the canal.
ARTICLE IL.
The high contracting parties
desiring to preserve and maintain
the general principle" Of neu-
tralization established in Article
VIII of the Clayton Bulwer
convention. Whjch coArentioR is
hereby superseded, adopt as the
basis of such naturalization the
following rules, substantially as
EN- bodied i'll the convention be
tween Great Britain and certain
other powers, signed at Constan-
tinople October %, 1858. for the
free navigation of the Suez Mar
ltlme canal, that is to say:
l. The canal shall free and
open in time of war as in time of
peace to the vessels of commerce
and of war of all nations on
terms of entire equality, SO that
there shall be no discrimination
against any nation or its citizens
or subjects in respect of the con
dltlonS or charges of traffic or
otherwise.
2. The canal shall never he
blockaded, nor shall any right of
war be exercised, nor any act of
hostility be committed within it.
,. Vessels of war of a hellig
erent shall not revictual nor take
any stores in the canal except so
far as may be strictly necessary.
and the transit Of such vessels
through the canal shall be effect
ed with the least possible delay
in accordance with the regula-
tions in force and with only such
intermissiOn as may result from
the necessities of the service.
Prizes shall be in all respects
subject to the same rules as YES
sells of war of the belligerents.
4. No belligerent shall embark
or diSembark troops, munitions of