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 The distinguished Senator from Alabama has referred to the subsequent signing by Panamanians-not the signing of the treaty. He is referring to the ratification of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, and that was done at Panama on December 2, 1903.
 There is a difference in signing a treaty and in ratifying, it. The treaty -we are discussing before the Senate now has already been signed, but it has not been ratified. That is what -we are talking about here. It is really a distinction perhaps without a difference, but there is a difference.
 We are talking now about treaties-a treaty, the Neutrality Treaty, which already has been signed and was -signed last September by the President of the United States. Mr. Carter, and by General Torrij os. By the time that treaty gets around to ratification, there may be different signatures. Who knows? An act of God may create a situation in
-,wich there will be different signatures.
 I am saying that the original treaty was signed by John Hay and P. Bunaui-Varilla, neither of whom was a Panamanian.
 If we want to quibble about that, let us continue the quibbling on another day. But there is the record. And what did Bunau-Varilla do?
 Mr. ALLEN. Mr. President, will the Senator yield at that point?
 Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Three days after the approval of the treaty by the U.S. Senate, he submitted his resignation as envoy extraordinary, and this is what he said:
 I had fulfilled my mission. I had safeguarded the work of the French genius.
 And who was the French genius? Ferdinand deLesseps. I had avenged its honor. I had served France. This was the signatory on the part of Panama-Bunau-Varilla. He h-ad served France, not Panama, not the United States of America. He had served France.
 M r. LAXALT. Mr. President, will the leader yield?
 Mr. ALLEN. Will he yield since he discussed that?
 Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. Those were his words. "I had served France."
 Mr. ALLEN. If the Senator will yield further, the Senator makes a point about the treaty being signed only by Bunau-Varilla. The Senator would realize that the American Government did not bring in a whole host of signatories to this treaty and it would have been difficult for the members of the junta there in Panama and the Cabinet there in Panama to have been present in Washington for the purpose of signing the treaty. They were down in Panama representing the Government and the people of Panama. Obviously they could not be up here in Washington to sign it along with Bunau-Varilla.
 Mr. ROBERT C. BYRD. No. They were on their way from New York.
 Mr. ALLEN. They signed it, though, in Panama, signed the treaty on the last page, and I ask unanimous consent -that this statement appearing on page 393 of this Duval work be printed in the Record.
 There being no -objection, the statement was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:
 The signatures were placed on the last page of the treaty in the following order:
 Junta M.fembers: T. A. Arango, Tomas Arias, Manuel Espinosa B. Minister of Interior: Eusebio A. Morales. Minister of Foreign Relations: F. V. de la Espriella.