No. 24.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Logan.

No. 196.]

Sir: On the 10th instant I sent to you, through Consul Sutter at Acapuleo, the following telegraphic message:

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations have adopted an amendment to hill incorporating the Maritime Canal Company, and make eleventh an objectionable clause “subject to any sovereign rights of the Government of Nicaragua.”

The bill to which this telegram referred was introduced in the Senate by Senator Miller, of California, on the 15th of December last, and has since been under examination in the Committee on Foreign Relations. The eleventh section thereof, with the amendment adopted by the committee on the 11th instant, indicated in brackets and italicized, now reads thus:

Sec. 11. That the United States shall exercise such control over the canal as is now or may at any time be prescribed by treaty with Nicaragua, and shall enjoy its free use for the transportation of troops, munitions of war, arid mails, and otherwise in accordance with stipulations in existing treaties. And should the United States see fit for national reasons to temporarily occupy and manage said canal, the right to do so [subject to any sovereign rights of the Government of Nicaragua] is hereby reserved and secured to the government upon the payment to the stockholders of said canal at the rate of 5 per centum annually upon the capital invested, together with the necessary expenses for the maintenance of the work.

I am, &c.,

FRED’K T. FRELINGHUYSEN.