The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-17
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington, March 1s.--Deciarins
the United States ought to be the most
scTupulous of all nations in keeping
9ts treaty obligations, even TO its own
hurt " the trustees of the Carnegie En-
d6wrnerlt for international Peace to-
night issued an appeal to the An1eri-
can people to bring about a repeal
% the free tolls provision Of the Pan
anna canal law.
The appeal is in the form of q state-
Faent over the signatures of the board
OF the trustees endowment, including
many prominent persons. and is as fol-
lows.
The members of the Board OF T11ls-
tees Of the Carneeia Endowment for
Interna ttonal Peace, invite the atten-
Fion of their feiIow-ciTizens TO the fol-
lowing statement concerning the grave
international discussion, which has
arisen over the exemption OF American
coastwise vessels from tolls on the
Panama canal
tOn November Is. 1901 a treaty to
facilitate the construction of a ship
canal to connect the Atlantic and Pa
cifIo Oceans was concluded between
the United States and Great Britain,
at the request and on tIIe initiative
Of the United States The essential
provisions of the treaty were IL that
be canal max be. constructed nrader
A-sfse auspices Of the government of the
United States and that -tl1es said gov :
ernment shall have ana enjoy all the
rights incident TO such construct on.
as we'll as the exclusive right OF pre-
yiding for the regulation and manage
ment Of the canal t2) that the cana
shall be free and open to the vessels
OF commerce and Of war or al ma :
fions observing these rules. on terms OF
entire equality CD that the plant for
operating the canal and the canal itself
shall he .neutralized.' and shall enjoy
complete immunity from attack or in
Jury by belligerents: co that the
United States shall be at liberty to
ma intain an adequate military police
along the canal: and f5l that no
change of territorial sovereignty or OF
the international relations of the coun-
Try or countries traversed by the be-
fore mentioned canal shall affect the
general principle of naturalization or
the blIgadion of the high contracting
parties under tfle present treaty
NECESSARY PRELIMINARY.
THE concluding Of this treaty
commonly spoken of as the Hay
Pauncefote Treaty-waS a necessary
preliminary to the construction OF any
Isthantan canal by the United States
or under it's auspices. because by a
previous convention between the same
parties concluded in April. 1850, the
United States and Great Britain had
bound themselves that neither would
ever obtain or maintain for itself any
exclusive control over an Isthnlian
canal or maintain any fortifications
commanding the same or exercise do
minion over any part of Central Amer
lea. The contracting parties further
agreed to protect the canal from in
4er1uption, seizure, or unjust confisca- :
item. and 20 guarantee it's neutrality.
"This convention-coFnmon spoken
OF as the Clayton -Bulwer Treaty
made at the request and ON the in
itiative of the United States, esta,b-
iished the general principle of the
naturalization of any Isthnnian canal
which might be constructed, a princt-
pie which the Hay Paupnoeforte
Treaty reafIirmed.
ANOTHER TREATY.
'On the 4th of April. 1908, the United
States and Great Britain made another
treaty in which they agreed that diff
ferences which may arise Of legal
nature or relating TO the interpreta-
ton of treaties existing between the
two contra citing parties and which it
may not have been possible to settle
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