On the recordFebruary 1, 1893
The first and second and the third and fourth of these provisions are reciprocal in their nature
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Message to Congress Regarding Railway Transportation Through Canada
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Feb 13, 1893
I transmit herewith a communication of the 13th instant from the Secretary of the Interior
Feb 1, 1893
The question whether Article XXIX is still in force depends, so far as the construction of the treaty goes, upon the meaning of the words 'the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII'
Feb 1, 1893
I am inclined to think that, using the aids which the protocol and the nearly contemporaneous legislation by Congress in the act of 1873 furnish in construing the treaty, the better opinion is that Article XXIX of the treaty is no longer operative
Feb 14, 1893
Such a possession would not consist with our safety and with the peace of the world.
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