The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-30
NEW CANAL
BARGAIN
An AngIo-Ameri-
can Treaty is
Signed.
PROGRESS TOWARDS
A WATERWAY
important Move Pointing to the
Early Advance of RooseveIt's
Canal Policy.

" canal treaty between the United
w States and Great Britain has
been signed. At noon Secretary Hay
bassador. affixed their signatures to the
deliberately engrossed document. Not
withstanding the Importance of the
event, 1t 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
chives 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 a 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-1
dicrously in guessing at them.
All the concessions were made by
Great Britain. and they were made pri-
r1ariIy because the English statesmen
are ever willing to go as far as pro-
priety will permit in winning the friend
Iy 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 few exceptions
commended the new policy of their
Government on the sensible ground that
IL the Americans were going to put
their hundred of millions into the
istbmian canal IL was for the Ameri-
cans, and not anyone else TO control it
in peace or war, without subsection to
reservations or ancient treaty rights of
any outside parties.
An authentic summary Of the treatys
terms may be classified under six heads
as follows:
l. II abrogates or supersedes the old
Clayton-BuIwer treaty. and thus puts
an end to the copartnership 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.
g. That this canal is to be neutral in
time Of peace. open To the ships of all
nations. and that its neutrality is guar
anteed by the United States alone.
T. 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 it may deem proper.
5. That the United States may make
such rules and regulations concerning
the use Of the canal as il sees fit, save
that the United States agrees not to
levy discrfrninative tolls upon the ship
ping Of Great Britain.
s In case OF n 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 -Pauncefote treaty |
the adherence of other maritime pow
crs was to be invited. That has been
dropped from the new treaty. In the
first treaty II was stipulated that the l
canal should not be fortified. That has
been dropped from the new treaty. and /
consequently the United States is free
10 do as IL likes with the canaI-tO for
tify II or 10 close il to its enemies.