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... question or any other question ? The CHAIRMAN . It is not an infrequent occurrence for the Secretary of State to appear before our committees . Senator SIMMONS . Is there any precedent in the history of this country for calling the ...
... question or any other question ? The CHAIRMAN . It is not an infrequent occurrence for the Secretary of State to appear before our committees . Senator SIMMONS . Is there any precedent in the history of this country for calling the ...
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... question involved , relating to the construction of this treaty , there are two sides to the question , and very good arguments can be made on either side of it . In other words , it is an honest dispute between honest men all over the ...
... question involved , relating to the construction of this treaty , there are two sides to the question , and very good arguments can be made on either side of it . In other words , it is an honest dispute between honest men all over the ...
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... question and the construction that was placed on it at the time , and the action both Governments took in regard to it , and the conditions that existed at the time the treaty was made , it seems to me that there is grave doubt whether ...
... question and the construction that was placed on it at the time , and the action both Governments took in regard to it , and the conditions that existed at the time the treaty was made , it seems to me that there is grave doubt whether ...
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... question , which is going into a discussion of the merits of the proposition , if it was free to the shipping of the whole world there would be no difference , but I do not believe there is anything in this proposition that your question ...
... question , which is going into a discussion of the merits of the proposition , if it was free to the shipping of the whole world there would be no difference , but I do not believe there is anything in this proposition that your question ...
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... question of law , as I look at it . I should like to have that question arbitrated by a board consisting , let us say , of three members of our Supreme Court and three members of the highest court of Great Britain ; and I would expect ...
... question of law , as I look at it . I should like to have that question arbitrated by a board consisting , let us say , of three members of our Supreme Court and three members of the highest court of Great Britain ; and I would expect ...
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American ships American vessels arbitration Atlantic bill BONAPARTE Britain British canal tolls cargo carriers carry cent CHAIRMAN CHAMBERLAIN charges citizens Clayton-Bulwer treaty coal coastwise shipping coastwise trade coastwise vessels committee competition construction cost course discrimination DUNN fact favor foreign trade free tolls freight Government Hay-Pauncefote treaty hearings HUEBNER interest Interstate Commerce Commission JOHNSON Lord Lansdowne Lord Pauncefote Lord Salisbury matter ment merchant nations operation opinion OUTERBRIDGE Pacific coast Panama Canal payment of tolls ports President Prof question rail rates reason reference repeal RING route San Francisco SCOTT seaboards Senator BORAH Senator BRANDEGEE Senator BRISTOW Senator SHIELDS Senator SIMMONS Senator THOMAS Senator THORNTON Senator WALSH shipowners shippers Soo Canal statement steamers steamship lines STRAUS subsidy Suez Canal tion tonnage tons traffic tramp transcontinental railroads transportation understand United vessels engaged west coast York
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Page 387 - The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable.
Page 241 - Britain hereby declare that neither the one, nor the other, will ever obtain, or maintain, for itself, any exclusive control over the said ship canal ; agreeing that neither will ever erect, or maintain, any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise, any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 488 - Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists ; and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 474 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the said Canal or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said enterprise.
Page 552 - The canal shall never be blockaded, nor shall any right of war be exercised nor any act of hostility be committed within it. The United States, however, shall be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against lawlessness and disorder.
Page 459 - ... with reference to any means of communication by shipcanal 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 481 - ... enjoy all the rights, privileges and exemptions, in navigation and commerce, which native citizens do or shall enjoy, submitting themselves to the laws, decrees, and usages there established, to which native citizens are subjected. But it is understood that this article does not include the coasting trade of either country, the regulation of which is reserved by the parties, respectively, according to their own separate laws.
Page 461 - ... or property over the territory through which the said canal shall pass, between the States or Governments of Central America, and such differences should in any way impede or obstruct the execution of the said canal, the Governments of the United States and Great Britain...
Page 468 - Panama agrees that there shall not be imposed any taxes, national, municipal, departmental, or of any other class, upon the Canal, the railways and auxiliary works, tugs and other...
Page 476 - The Government of the Republic of Panama shall have the right to transport over the Canal its vessels and its troops and munitions of war in such vessels at all times without paying charges of any kind.