Panama Canal Treaty Negotiations: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress ...

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Page 499 - II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama...
Page 504 - The grant to the United States of all the rights, power and authority which it would possess if it were sovereign of the territory described, and to the entire exclusion of the exercise by Panama of any such sovereign authority, is conclusive upon the question you raise. The position of this Government upon this point was clearly and definitely set forth in the note of Mr. Hay to Mr. de Obaldia of October 24, 1904.
Page 498 - Congress should be given to said stipulation before the same can have full force and effect; having taken into consideration the said treaty, and approving of the stipulations therein, to the end that the, same may be carried into effect: Therefore, '4 ' SEC. 1. Be it enacted, That the assent of Congress is hereby given to the stipulations of said treaty.
Page 499 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection...
Page 498 - Senate thereafter gave its advice and consent to said treaty, by the terms of which it was stipulated that, in consideration of the cession by the Emperor of Russia to the United States of certain territory therein described, the United States should pay to the Emperor of Russia the sum of...
Page 499 - ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power and authority.
Page 496 - This Government could not and would not enter into any discussion affecting its full right to deal with the Canal Zone under Article III of the Treaty of 1903 as if it were the sovereign of the Canal Zone and to the exclusion of any sovereign rights or authority on the part of Panama . . . This must be regarded as ending the discussion of that matter.
Page 498 - States; and whereas the subjects thus embraced in the stipulations of said treaty are among the subjects which, by the Constitution of the United States, are submitted to the power of Congress, and over which Congress has exclusive jurisdiction; and it being for such reason necessary that the consent of Congress should be given to the said treaty before the same can have full force and effect, having taken into consideration the said treaty and approving of the stipulations therein.
Page 478 - An ecological explosion means the enormous increase in numbers of some kind of living organism — it may be an infectious virus like influenza, or a bacterium like bubonic plague, or a fungus like that of the potato disease, a green plant like the prickly pear, or an animal like the grey squirrel. I use the word 'explosion...
Page 498 - Whereas the President of the United States, on the 30th of March, 1867, entered into a treaty with the Emperor of Russia, by the terms of which it was stipulated that in consideration of the cession by the Emperor of Russia to the United States of certain territory therein described, the United States should pay to the Emperor of Russia the sum of...

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