Nicaragua Canal: Reports of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate in the Fifty-first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congress, with Subject Index |
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Page 43 - Convention their views and intentions with reference to any means of communication by ship canal which may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the way of the River San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both of the Lakes of Nicaragua or Managua, to any port or place on the Pacific Ocean, the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M.
Page 123 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, and many a tyrant since; their shores obey the stranger, slave, or savage; their decay has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, unchangeable, save to thy wild waves' play ; time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 24 - ... by the order of the board of directors of said company, and that he- signed his name thereto by the like order as secretary of the said company.
Page 57 - An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world.
Page 162 - ART. 5. The Government of the Republic hereby declares the ports at each end of the canal, and the waters of the latter from sea to sea, to be neutral...
Page 43 - States as they may deem advisable, for the purpose of more effectually carrying out the great design of this convention, namely, that of constructing and maintaining the said canal as a ship communication between the two oceans, for the benefit of mankind, on equal terms to all, and of protecting the same...
Page 57 - No other great power would under similar circumstances fail to assert a rightful control over a work so closely and vitally affecting its interest and welfare.
Page 57 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.
Page 223 - Nicaragua, and with whom I am personally acquainted, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say: That he resided in the...
Page 24 - ... order of the board of directors of said company, and that he- signed his name thereto by the like order as secretary of the said company. And the said Thomas B. Atkins further said that he was...