The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

ernments possessing any jurisdiction or
 right over the territory the canal shall
 traverse to facilitate it's construction and
 to procure the establishment of two free
 ports, one at each end of the canal; for
 the neutrality of the canal; to encourage
 and support such persons as may first of
 fer to commence the construction of the
 canal. ss,
 It was declared in Article that the two
 governments having not only desired m
 entering into the convention to accomp-
 fish particular object, but to establish d
 general principle they would extend their
 protection, by treaty; to any other practI-
 cable communication, whether by canal or
 railway, across the Isthmus which com
 nects North and South America, and cs-
 pecially to the inter-oceanic communica- tions which should prove to be practi- cable whether by canal or railway, then proposed to be established by way of Te- huantepec or Panama, charges on such canals or railways to be such as the United States and Great Britain should approve as equitable and just, such canals or railways to be open to the citizens and subjects of every other country will ling to grant thereto such protection as the United States and Great Britain en- gagged to afford. sh The Canal to Be a Bond of Peace. President Taylor. in his first and only annual message, informed Congress, December {. 1S49. that Q contract having been concluded with the State of Nica- ragua by a company composed of Amer lean citizens, for the purpose of con- structing a ship canal through the ter ritory of that State to connect the Att
 iantic and Pacific oceans. he had directed the negotiation of treaty with Nicara- qua, piedging both governments to pro- | tect those who should engage in and per- feet the work. All other nations, he said, had been invited by the State of Nicu- ragua to enter into the same treaty stip- 1 ulations with her, and the benefit to be l derived by each from such arrangement would be the protection of this great in- l ter-oceanic communication against any power which might seek to obstruct 1t or to monopolize its advantages: that ali 1 States entering into such a treaty would enjoy the right of passage through tho canal on payment of the same tolls. "The work, if constructed, under these guardn. tees" President Taylor said, twill be- come bond of peace instead of a subject
 of contention and strife between nations
 of the earth.' (Pres. Mess, V. 5, pp. 15- 16.)
 President Taylor, in the same message, mentioned the routes across the Isthmus at Tehuantepec and Panama as pelng also worthy of our serious consideration and that they did not fail to engage the
 attention of hts predecessor (Mr. Pollk), and the negotiator of the treaty of Gaud- alupe-H Hidalgo was instructed to offer a
 very large sum of money for the right
 Of transit across the Isthmus of Tehuan- tepec, (Ib. 16.)
 President Taylor submitted the Clayton Bulwer treaty to the Senate for their ad-
 vice. April 9. 1850. In his letter of trans- mission he wrote:
 "This treaty has been negotiated in ac-
 cordance with the general views express ed in my message to Congress in Decem- | Der last. Its object is to establish a com
 mercial alliance with all great maritime States for the protection of a contem-
 plated ship canal through the territory of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. and at the same time In- | sure the same protection to the contem-
 plated railways or canals by the Tehuau. l tepec and Panama routes, as we'll as tC l every other interoceanic communication
 which may be adopted to shorten the
 transit to or from our territories on the
 Pacific." (Pres. Mess, 5, p. 42.)