How did later secretaries of state try to alter the provisions of the treaty?

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Successive secretaries of state tried in vain to secure modifications that would enable the United States to build its own canal and exercise, under restrictions, political control over it, but it was not until 1901, with the Hay-Pauncefote Treaties , that this end was finally achieved.