Would a subsidy to the amount of the tolls granted to American ships passing through the Canal be a discrimination prohibited by the treaty? FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913, at 8 O'CLOCK P.M. What is the effect of the exemption of American coastwise shipping upon Has the United States the right to exclude from the use of the Canal any class of foreign vessels, such as railway-owned vessels? MR. JOHN FIFTH SESSION SATURDAY, APRil 26, 1913, at 10 o'clock a.m. Has the United States the right to exclude from the use of the Canal any class of foreign vessels, such as railway-owned vessels? (Continued.) Is it necessary in international law that injury actually be suffered before a justiciable action arises? MR. THOMAS RAEBURN WHITE..... Letter: From Prof. John Westlake. The rule of treaty construction known as rebus sic stantibus. HON. HAN- Remarks of Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, Toastmaster.. His Excellency Gregers W. W. Gram... His Excellency Jonkheer J. Loudon.. General treaty of peace, amity, navigation, and commerce between the United States of America and the Republic of New Granada. [Colombia.] December 12, 1846. (Article XXXV.)....... Convention between the United States of America and Great Britain for facilitating and protecting the construction of a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and for other purposes. April 19, 1850. Convention between the United States and Great Britain to facilitate the construction of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. February 5, 1900. [Unratified Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (Showing amend- ments made by United States Senate)]............. Convention between the United States of America and the United King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland, to facilitate the construction of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. November 18, 1901. [Hay-Pauncefote Treaty now in force.].............. Convention respecting the free navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal. Constantinople, October 29, 1888............. Convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama to insure the construction of ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. November 18, 1903 British Chargé d'Affaires to the Secretary of State, July 8, 1912............. An Act to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection, and operation of the Panama Canal, and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone. August 24, 1912.... Memorandum [by the President of the United States] to accompany the Panama Canal Act. August 24, 1912...... Proclamation of the President of the United States prescribing Panama Canal toll rates. November 13, 1912..... The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Great Britain to Ambassador The Secretary of State of the United States to Chargé d'Affaires at London. 299 OFFICERS CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE YEAR 1913-1914. PRESIDENT HON ELIHU ROOT VICE-PRESIDENTS HON. JAMES B. ANGELL HON. RICHARD BARTHOLDT, Missouri. HON. WILLIAM W. MORROW HON. C. P. ANDERSON, New York CHARLES HENRY BUTLER, Esq., D. C. PROF. GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY, New York ROBERT LANSING, ESQ., New York TO SERVE UNTIL 1915 TO SERVE HON. AUGUSTUS O. BACON, Georgia HON. FRANK C. PARTRIDGE, Vermont PROF. LEO. S. Rowe, Pennsylvania FREDERIC R. COUDERT, ESQ., New York REAR ADM. CHAS. H. STOCKTON, D. C. CHARLES B. WARREN, ESQ., Michigan HON. JOHN S. WILLIAMS, Mississippi PROF. THEO. S. WOOLSEY, Connecticut HON. JOHN B. MOORE, New York UNTIL 1916 EVERETT P. WHEELER, ESQ., New York vi EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HON. ELIHU ROOT ROBERT LANSING, ESQ. EX-OFFICIO HON. JOHN W. FOSTER, CHAIRMAN JAMES BROWN SCOTT, ESQ., RECORDING SECRETARY CHANDLER P. ANDERSON CHARLES CHENEY HYDE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW JAMES BROWN SCOTT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY THEODORE S. WOOLSEY GEORGE A. FINCH, BUSINESS MANAGER COMMITTEES Standing Committee on Selection of Honorary Members: GEORGE G. WILSON, Chairman; JACKSON H. RALSTON, THEODORE S. WOOLSEY. Standing Committee on Increase of Membership: JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Chairman; CHARLES CHENEY HYDE, JOHN H. LATANÉ, JESSE S. REEVES, THEODORE S. WOOLSEY. Auditing Committee: ALPHEUS H. SNOW, CLEMENT L. Bouvé. Committee on Codification: ELIHU ROOT, Chairman, ex officio; CHANDLER P. ANDERSON, CHARLES HENRY BUTLER, LAWRENCE B. EVANS, CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, ROBERT LANSING, PAUL S. REINSCH, LEO. S. ROWE, JAMES BROWN SCOTT, GEORGE G. WILSON. Committee on Publication of Proceedings: GEORGE A. FINCH, OTIS T. CARTWRIGHT. Committee on Eighth Annual Meeting: JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Chairman; JAMES W. GARNER, ARTHUR K. KUHN, ROBERT LANSING, WALTER S. PENFIELD, JACKSON H. RALSTON, EUGENE WAMBAUGH. |