The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-12-03

w States and Great Britain has
been signed. At noon Secretary Hay
and Lord Pauncefote, the British En-
bassador. affixed their signatures to the
deliberately engrossed document. Not
withstanding the Importance of the
event, ii was marked by severe sim
plicity. Lord Pauncefote, accompanied
by the second Secretary of the British
Embassy Percy Wyndham. appeared
at the State Department at midday.
They were expected. and at once were
shown into Secretary Hays office. Two
parchment copies of the treaty were
ready
The signatures of the duly accredited
representatives of the two great powers
were 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
ehives of the State Department. AS
soon as the signatures and seals had
been affixed Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote shook hands and exchanged
congratulations. Lord Pauncefote care
fully placed his copy of the precious
document in big envelope, and hold
ing this in his hand took his carriage
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 lu-
dicrously in guessing at them.
All the concessions were made by
Great Britain, and they We're made prl-
marily because the English statesmen
are ever willing to go as far as pro-
priety will permit in winning the friend
ly regard of the people of the great
Western Republic This spirit was
supported for the most part by the gen
erous and broad-minded press in Eng
land which, with a few exceptions,
commended the new policy of their
Government on the sensible ground that
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their hundred of millions into the
isthmian canal it was for the Ameri-
cans. and not anyone else To control 1t
in peace or war, without sybjection to
reservations or ancient treaty rights of
any outside parties.
An authentic summary of the treaty s
terms may be classified under six heads
as follows:
I. 1t abrogates or supersedes the old
Clayton Bulwer treaty, and thus puts
an end to the copartnersSip between
the United States and Great Britain in
the proposed isthmian canal provided
for by that instrument.
.. 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 al
nations, and that its neutrality Is guar.
anteed by the United States alone
4. That in time of war the United
States may take such steps for the pro.
lection of the canal and its own inter
ests as ii may deem proper.
). That the United States may make
such rules and regulations concerning
the use of the canal as ii 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 ia
the naturalization in time of peace and
nondisCriminative tolls shall not be al
tered
In the first -Pauncefote treaty
the adherence of other maritime pow
ers was to be invited. That has beer
dropped from the new treaty. In the
first treaty ii 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 ii or to close il to its enemies.
In other words, the new treaty re-
moves the old partnership or joint guar
antee arrangement and stipuates 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 We're located upon the
soil of the United States, with the sin
gle exception that the principle o!
naturalization in time of peace is pre-.
served, and naturalization in 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 exactly
in accordance with the American policy
as laid down by the Senate in response
to public opinion. The stipulation that
the United states could not, If II wish
ed, fortify its own canal and the inn
pied stipulation that it must permit
the ships of its enemies to pass through
the channel We're features which tn,
public and Senate objected To, and which
have been omitted from the new treaty
Nothing more remains to be done al
far as this treaty is concerned befor,
The Senate meets, or, indeed, until tn,
treaty shall have been ratified, rejected
or referred. If II shall be ratified tn,
State Department will proceed imme
diately to negotiate the treaties Will
Costa Rica and Nicaragua. for whicl
II already has arranged in protocol
pending before the Senate, which vii
permit the canal to be constructed an,
prescribe the terms upon which the con
sent OF Nicaragua and Costa Rica il
given. 1t was in anticipation of thi
action, II is presumed, that the Mica
raguan Government only recently de
nounced the treaty of trade and com
merce with the United States. Thi
treaty contained sections conveying
rights as to canal construction, whicl
are 10 be replaced by more moderl