The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-06

60 Which the Senate objected Have
Been Eliminated
WASHINGTON. November lS-The
new canal treaty between the United
States ana Great Britain has been sign
ed. AT noon Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote, the British ambassador
affixed their signatures to the eIabor-
dteiy eugrosscd document NotWith-
standing the Importance of the event,
IL was marked by severe simplicity.
Lord Pauncefote, accompanied by the
second Secretary of the British Em-
bassy, Percy Wyndham. appeared at
the State Department at midday. They
were expected, ana at once were shown
into Secretary Hays office. Two parch-
ment copies of the treaty We're ready.
The signatures of the duly accredited
representative of the two great powers
We're at once placed upon the scrolls.
secretary Hay signed first the copy
which is to go to London, and Embas-
sadOr PauncefOte was the first to sign
the copy which is to go into the ar
chives Of the State Department. As
soon as the signatures and seals had
been affixed Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote shook hands and eXchang-
ed congratulations. Lord Pauncefote
carefully placed his copy of the preci-
Gus document i'm a big envelope, and
holding this in his hand took his car
riage for the Embassy. The terms of
the treaty will not be officially made
public until sent to the Senate, but the
yellow journal representatives have
failed ludicrously in guessing at them.
All the concessions were made by
Great Britain, and they were made pri-
marily because the English statesmen
are ever willing to go as far as pro-
priety will permit in winning the
friendly regard of the people of the
great Western Republic. This spirit
was supported for the most part by the
generous and broad-minded press in
England, which, with a few exceptions,
commended the new policy of their
government on the sensible ground that
if the Americans were going to to put
their hundred of millions into the 18TH
milan canal it was for the Americans,
and not anyone else to control it in
peace or war, without subsection to re-
servations or ancient treaty rights of
any outside parties.
An authentic summary of the treaty's
terms may be classified under six heads
as follows:
1T abrOgates or supersedes the old
Clayton Bulwer treaty, and thus puts
an end to the copartnership between
the United States and Great Britain
in the proposed isthmian canal provid-
ed for by that instrument.
2-Declares that the United States is
free to proceed to the construction of
such canal.
3-That this canal is to be neutral in
time of peace, open to the ships of all
nations, and that it's neutrality Is
guaranteed by the United States alone
THAT in time of war the United
States may take such steps for the
protection of the canal and it's own in
terests as 1t may deem proper.
5-That the United States may make
such rules and regulations concerning
the use of the canal as it sees fit. save
that the United States agrees not to
| levy discriminatiVe tolls upon the ship
ping of Great Britain.
| 6-In case of a change of sovereignty
in the isthmus the stipulation which
the United States has entered into as to
the naturalization in time of peace and
nondiscriminative tolls shall not be al
tered.
In the first Hay Pauncefote treaty
the adherence of other maritime pow
ers was to be invited. That has been
| dropped from the new treaty. In the
| first treaty it was stipulated that the
canal should not be fortified That has
been dropped from the new treaty, and
consequently the United States is free
to do as it likes with the canal-to for
! tify it or to close it to it's enemies.
| In other words, the new treaty re-
moves the old partnership or Joint
guarantee arrangement and stipulates
| for the United States freedom to go
ahead with the construction of the
canal, which shall be as fully under
/ American control as if it were located
upon the soil of the United States, with
| the single exception that the principle
| q 20 IN, Of Il,
| preserved and naturalization i'm time of
peace and placing the canal at the ser
| vice of the ships of all nations that
care to use it and pay the tolls, is eX-
| actly in accordance with the American
policy as laid down by the Senate in
response to public opinion. The stipu-
lation that the United States could not,
! if it wished, fortify it's own canal and
! the implied stipulation that it must
permit the ships of its enemies TO pass
| through the channel were features
which the public and Senate objected
to, and which have been omitted from
the new treaty.
! Nothing more remains to be done as
| far as this treaty is concerned before
the Senate meets, or, indeed, until the
! treaty shall have been ratified, rejected
on referred. If it shall be ratified the
State Department will proceed imme-
| diately to negotiate the treaties with
! Costa Rica go Nicaragua, for which
| ii already has arranged in protocols
pending before the Senate, which will
| permit the canal to be constructed and
prescribe the terms upon which the
consent of Nicaragua and Costa Rica is
given. 1t was in anticipation of this
action, it is presumed that the Nicara-
guam Government only recently de-
nounced the treaty of trade and COM
merce with the United States. This
treaty contained sections conveying
rights as to canal construction, which
are to be replaced by more modern pro-