...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...other powers, signed at Constantinople, October 29, 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...

...of war as in time of peace to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations," a stipulation that the canal shall "be free and open to the vessels of commerce and war of all nations observing these rules," without the addition of the words "in time of war as in...