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Fortification of the Panama Canal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
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In the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of 1850 the United States and Great Britain agreed that neither would ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the canal or the vicinity thereof. The Hay-Paunceforte treaty of 5 February, 1900, by clause 7, stipulated as follows:
No fortifications shall be erected commanding the canal or the waters adjacent. 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.
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1 Printed in Supplement, 3:110.
2 Printed in Supplement, 3:121.
3 Printed in Supplement, 3:123.
4 The following statement concerning the authorship of this memorandum was made by Honorable J. Keifer in the course of a speech in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1911:
“The gentleman reads largely from a communication which he says was pre pared by John Hay and sent to the United States Senate. He is misled about that. John Hay never prepared it, and it was a matter of remark that he did not do it. The document which he reads from was not prepared by him, but bj somebody, possibly by a clerk, in the State Department that wanted to make an argument that way, and it was disregarded by the Senate. The treaty speaks for itself, and Hay negotiated and endorsed it, including all its neutralization.” (Congressional Record, February 25, 1911.)