Show HAVE SIGNED TREATY 310 Signatures Appended to an f Important Document PERTAINS TO ISTHMIAN CANAL HayPnuncefoto Treaty Amendatory II to the ClaytonBulwcr Treaty Rsla H tivo to the Construction of Nicn ragun Wftterwny Completed Hits been Sent to Sonnto to bo 5 i JUxtificd Undo Sam will Soon beat flat fl-at Liberty to Proceed Unfettered by Obligations Toward John Bull J t Washington Fob 5 Thc Tlay Paunepfole treaty amendatory of ijio 18 ClaylonBulwor treaty relative to tho construction of the Nicaragua canal VRS signed at the State department to n < fjd I day by Secretary Hay for the United i pgti > 5 Slates and Lord Pnnncefolo for Great l JUT Britain The freshlysigned treaty wui H WI taken lo tile White House where thin t otter h of iransmlltal wOe signed by ihr I President so that the treaty could bo u I I dispalched al once lo thc United States Senate for ratification The letter of transinltlal watt purely formal simply k1 commending time treaty lo time Senate without entering upon any arguuunc lo demonstrate Us great value Secretary Hay declined lo make public i l pub-lic l time text of time treaty or even to lift make any statement as lo lie details 1 holding h that courtesy to tIme Senate iii obliged him to remain silent until the fart Senate Itself removed lie seal of confidence con-fidence from time convention So Unit glJ all that Is now known of this convention conven-tion Is thai it amends the Clayton tft Bulwer treaty of 1S50 In such manner hILt Greal Britain yields to the United Slates time right lo construct the INU araguan canal or a canal at any other point on the isthmus without British Jew partIcIpation Most of the other features In time ClaylonHulwcr treaty are retained for This Is notably true of article number 5 which guarantees the absolute neu Irallly of any canal and time Kccurlty of the capital Invested It Is understood under-stood thai time UnIted Slates continues upon Itself this obligation to maintain li the ncutrallzallon of the canal whUn shall be open and free It Is also be loved 1 the treaty looks lo an International Interna-tional undertaking on this point Because thc requirements of International Interna-tional courtesy would not otherwise be observed It is expected the Senato I will nol make time convcnllon public I before tomorrow at the earliest and on Ku this polnl there has been some understanding under-standing between Secretary Hay and the British Government As soon as the treaty Is ratified and la the ratIficatIons have been exchanged In time United States will be at liberty to proceed at once with the construction of an Isthmian canal unfettered by any re obligations toward Great Britain savo lint of allowing to British citizens at to the citizens of other nations limo use of the canal on tho same terms n with American citizens Possibly thin might have been done wIthout todays treaty for the case as to whether or not the ClaytonBulwcr treaty Is still alive has been a subject of controversy for many years and able minds hay taken opposite sides cfru But the present Administration is ru convinced thai the Clay tonBulwer la treaty is still in force and It felt Itself bound by the most sacred obligations to live un to tIme treaty as long as Ic stood unchanged and desiring to amend It resorted to time only honorable l honor-able means In Its Judgment to reallo Its desires hence the treaty signed lo day There is absolutely no juld pro TTe flio offered to Great Britain In this treaty In return for the valuable concession fall con-cession to time United States Whatever lin < What-ever return the United States may nil choose to make for this concession is a P thing of lie future Ml |