Word: canal
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...Control of the Canal by the United States is desirable: Gen. ref. - (a) Neutrality of canal better guaranteed by a single strong nation than by a joint protectorate. - (b) U. S. is its natural protector. - (1) By its situation. - (2) By the Monroe Doctrine: Rodrigues...
...Control of the Canal by the United States is possible. - (a)Clayton - Bulwer treaty is ineffective: Rodrigues. Esp. 226, 227; Hall, Int. Law, 294 - 297; Wharton, Digest, II, S 238. - (1) England has violated it. - (2) Conditions have changed. - (3) England raised no objections to proposed treaty of U. S. with Nicaragua...
...public interests. - (1) Complete monopoly should not be run for private profit. - (b) For commercial interests. - (1) Early completion. (2) Economic construction.- (3) Low tolls.-(c) For national interests. - (1) Foreign governments cannot meddle under pretext of protecting capital invested. - (2) U.S. will have undisputed right to canal as a strategic point...
...TROTTER and J. C. ROWE.Best general references: Treaties and Conventions, p. 440; "The Nicaragua Canal," (published by the company); Cleveland's message, Dec. 8, 1885; Rodrigue's Panama Canal, 213 - 220; Nation, XXXIX, 516 (Dec. 18, 1884), 538; Sat. Rev., LVIII, 784 (Dec. 20, 1884); Hall's International Law, 282, 290 - 8; For. Rel., 1881, pp. 549, 563, and 1882, pp. 302 - 14; Chautauquan, XIII, 409 (July...
...canal is a great necessity, a private company will construct it. - (a) Such undertakings in past carried out by private companies: Pup. Opinion, 214, (June 4, 1894). - (b) Conditions here especially favorable. - (1) No government obstacles. - (x) Concessions of Nicaragua to Maratime Canal Co., 1887: Sen. Rep. 50 Cong., 1 Sess., No. 221. - (y) Company incorporated by Congress, 1889: Statutes at Large, XXV, 673. - (2) Scheme demonstrated to be plain and feasible: The "Nicaragua Canal," 18, 59.-(c) The present not a sincere private company attempt. - (1) Company too anxious for government aid and control: Sen. Rep. 50 Cong...