Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

arranged in 1901, between John Hay, representing the United States, and Lord Pauncefote, representing Great Britain. It modified the long-standing Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, so that the United States could undertake the construction, maintenance, and control of an Isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The first treaty arranged was not acrepted by the Senate, but later in the year, another was arranged that the Senate ratified, _Hays, Isaac, an American physician; born in Philadelpnia, Pa., July 5, 1796; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1816, and at its Medical Department in 1820; became editor of the “American Journal of the Medical Sciences” in 1827, and in more than 40 years of work on that periodical gained a wide reputation. His code of ethics which he drew up for the American medical a ociation was adopted by every State and county medical society in the United States. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 13, 1879.