The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-11-23
TREATY is SIGNED.
Signatures Affixed to New Hay
Pauncefote Pact.
Final Step in Isthnian Canal NcSOti-
atoms COmDleted-SHnops Of
Most Important Provisions
of the Measure.


Washington, Nov. 19.-The new
Hay-Pauncefote treaty was signed
Monday at l2:o5 by Secretary Hay,
for the United States, and Lord
Pauncefote, the British ambassador,
for Great Britain.
Important Provisions.
On what is deemed excellent author
ity, the following are the provisions
which give the United States exclusive
military as we'll as civil control:
'The United States is invested with
the sole right to protect the canal from
damage by an enemy.
"The United States has the right to
exclude an enemy's ships from the use
of the canal.
"The United States alone of all ma
tons has the right to defend itself in
the waters adjacent to the canal"
The principles above noted are i'm
portant because they were forced from
Great Britain and neutralize the So
called "neutraliza ton" of the canal.
In time of war it is plain, from the text
of the treaty, that the United States
will have privileges not to be enjoyed
by other nations.
No Discrimination.
More important than the above
agreement between the United States
and Great Britain is the following ex-
tract from the treaty:
"The canal shall be free and open to
vessels of commerce and war, of all
nations observing these rules, on terms
of entire equality, so that there shall
be no discrimination against any such
nation"
There was more discussion on the
vembage of this proposition than any
other between Lord Lansdowne, Am
bassador Choate and Lord Pauncefote.
Lord Lansdowne insisted that the
phraseology should be that the ma
tions should agree to observe the
rules. The American diplomats, how
ever, insisted that if the nations where
in the treaty to "agree" to certain
things that word would imply con-
tract with foreign nations, and the OBJ
ject of the new treaty was to give
exclusive American control. Lord
Lansdowne and Lord Pauncefote
yielded.
An extremely important provision
of the new treaty is article four, the
point of which is "that no change of
sovereignty or of international rela-
lions of the country or countries trav-
ersed by said ship canal, shall affect
the general principle of naturalization
hereby esta blished, or the obligations
of the parties under this treaty."
By this article no changes in the
governments of Nicaragua or Costa
Rica, or their relations to any other
nations than the United States shall
impair the rights of the United States
in the canal. Thus, if Costa Rica or
Nicaragua should ever become part
of the United States, or by the fortunes
of war dependencies on any other
country, the right of the United States
would still be intact.
The preamble of the new treaty has
been changed slightly. The change
consists of the insertion of the words
''by whatever route may be considered
expedient" after the words ga ship
canal to connect the Atlantic and the
Pacific oceans"
The other points in the new treaty
which have heretofore been coniectur-
al. are that Great Britain agrees to
omit the clause prohibiting the fortifi-
cation of the canal"
That the United States has the right,
by this very treaty, to close canal
against belligerent, and to defend it
'by whatever means are deemed nee
essary." This gives the United States
the right to fortify, heretofore denied.
The fact that Great Britain has
agreed to the treaty as prepared here
has already been announced.
Fnvors Nicnrnguan Route.
Washington, Nov. 1S.-The isthmian
canal commission, of which Rear Adj
miral Walker is chairman, has COM
pleted its report. The commission is
unanimous in its conclusions. 1t favors
the adoption of the Nicaraguan route
as the most feasible and most practi-
cable for an isthmian canal to be "un-
der the CONTROL management and own
ership of the United States
The commission estimates the cost
of the proposed canal at about $780,
100000. This is for canal with a
depth of IS feet; a width at the bottom
of $50 feet. increasing at turns to 200
feet, and with eight locks, four on each
side of Lake Nicaragua.