...1888, for the free navigation of the Suez Canal, that is to say: 1. The canal shall bo free and opon to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations...citizens or subjects. In respect of the conditions or elmrp's of traffic, or otherwise. Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable....

...dissemination of Tory ideas in this country wish to reflect upon the good faith of our nation. It says that the canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce...equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any of such nations or its citizens and subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic,...

...very clear. It has been quoted, but I would -like to recall it to the attention of the Chamber. "The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce...rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall he no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions...

...United States." The clause in the second treaty regarding the rights of nations reads as fo)Jows : " The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and war of all nations which shall agree to observe these rules, on terms of entire equality ; so that...

...claiming that the Panama Canal Act violates the following provision of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty : " The canal shall be free and open to- the vessels of commerce...and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terniP of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its...

...crucial reads: "The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and war of all nations, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be...citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions of traffic, or otherwise." This would seem quite definite, especially when read in conjunction with...

...contained no references to fortifications. The existing Hay-Pauncefote treaty stipulates that ''the canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and war 37 of all nations"; but the United States is the sole guarantor of the neutral use of the water-way...

...matter be brought before the Hague Tribunal. The exact words of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty are: "The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce...observing these rules, on terms of entire equality." To maintain that this means "all nations other than the United States," ie that the treaty only meant...

...the one but not the other. "And how are we to deal with those words 'observing these rules'? It says, 'The vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules.' "Was the United States declaring to the world that it would admit its own ships to the canal if it,...

...free and open, in time of war as in time oE peace, to vessels of commerce and of war, of all nations, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any nation or its citizens or subjects in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise....