...is 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...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...

...rules, substantially as embodied in the convention of Constantinople, signed the 28th October, 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 observing these rules, on terms...

...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...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...

...ratified 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...

...the 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...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...

...substantially as embodied in the Convention of Constantinople signed the twenty-eighth October, 1888, for the free navigation of the Suez Canal, that is to say:' "How did the original treaty begin? 'The High Contracting Parties,' that is Great Britain and the United...

...convention between Great Britain and certain other Powers, signed at Constantinople October 29, 1888, for the free navigation of the Suez Canal ; that is to say: 1. The canal shall be 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...

...other Powers, signed at Constantinople, October 39,1888, for the Free Navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal, that is to say : 1. The canal shall be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations, on terms...

...rules substantially as embodied in the convention of Constantinople, signed the 28th October, 1888, for the free navigation of the Suez Canal, that is to say: " i. The canal shall be free and open to all vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing...