483

 NAYS-4 2
Allen Griffin Roth Bartlett Hansen Sasser Bentsen Hatch Schmitt Brooke Hatfield, Paul G. Schweiker Byrd, Harry F., Jr. Helms Scott Cannon Johnston Stennis Curtis Laxalt Stevens DeConcini Long Stone Dole Lugar Talmadge Domenici Magnuson Thurmond Eastland McClure Tower Ford Morgan Wallop 'Garn Nunn Young Goldwater Randolph Zoriusky
 NOT VOTING-2
Abourezk Pell
 So the motion to lay on the table understanding No. 16 was agreed to.

 Reservation No. 15 (Stone, et al.), April 18, 1978 (Congressional Record, S 5738) -Withdrawn.
 Swmmary.-Provided that the Panama Canal Commission could not incur any debt arising from the operation and maintenance of the canal, 'or encumber the canal with any lien, unless such action was authorized by legislation.
 Text.-Strike out the period at the end of the resolution of ratification and insert in lieu thereof a comma and the following: "subject to the following reservation:
 "The Panama Canal Commission may not incur any debt arising out of the operation or maintenance of the Panama Canal or encumber the Panama Canal -with any lien, unless the United States of America by legislation authorizes the Commission to incur such a debt or encumber the Canal with such a lien."
 IVithd'rawal, April 18, 1978 (Congressional Record, S 5738) .-The
-reservation was withdrawn at the request of the sponsor, after Senator Church suggested that the matter would be better addressed in the implementing legislation.

 Reservation No. 3 (Bartlett) ,April 18, 1978 (Congressional Record, S 5744)-'Tabled 63-35.
 Sa mary.-Provided that, before the date of, exchange of the instruments of ratification, the President of the United States would have to determine that Panama had ratified the Treaty, as amended, in accordance with its constitutional processes, including the process prescribed in Article 274 of the Panamanian constitution. The specified article of Panamna's Constitution states that treaties regarding the Panama Canal, the Canal Zone, and the construction of a sea level canal or a third set of locks will be submitted to a national plebiscite.
 Text. Before the period of at the end of the resolution of ratification, insert a comma and the following: "subject to the reservation that before the date of the exchange of the instruments of ratification