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It says we can be bound to international treaties until the Senate looks at it... that’s the entire concern right there, no?
No, man! Go back and read what you linked to. Great Britain was bitching and we told them to stop whining.
Go back to page 88-92 at your link... Whereas a measure known as the Hepburn bill (H. R. 2538), which enables the President to take the initiative in securing the necessary right of way, was passed by the House of Representatives at the last session of Congress, and which is now awaiting the action of the Senate, and a failure to pass this bill at this session would involve a renewal of all legislation and further serious menace to the commercial, industrial, manufacturing, and agricultural interests of the entire United States, as well as of countries having reciprocal trade relations with us; and

Whereas the great majority of the people of our country who have given intelligent consideration to this question in all its aspects are earnestly demanding that the work be inaugurated without further delay: Therefore it is

Resolved, That the National Board of Trade especially urges that the measure now pending in the United States Senate, above referred to (H. R. 2538), be passed without delay, to the end that immediate steps be taken for the commencement of the work on the lines recommended by the United States Canal Commission.

This is about a domestic bill!
Back to 93-97... Great Britain, therefore, must recognize the fact that in signing these protocols the United States openly disregards the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and this new fact brings forward the question of the violation of that treaty in a form that can not be avoided.

Under such conditions, created by the act of our Government, the Senate, whose alleged powers are most nearly involved in this serious question, should either affirm or disaffirm the right of the President to make these basic agreements with Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

And what are these "new facts" you ask? Back we go to 88-92 New facts, creating a new situation, have been imported into the canal question, which demand most careful consideration and decisive action, it is the act of the United States, lawfully accomplished, which has given important and unquestionable rights to two other independent Republics, and also to the United States, in exact accordance with the language and spirit of the House bill 2538.

Did you even read any of it before you linked to it? How did you even come by that info?!