Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-06-08
WASHINGTON.
The Personnel of the Tariff Com
mission.
Political Discussion Over q Naval
restless, Appropriation.
ness now, tddent Nominates the Tar
sppiness Is iff Commission.

ness now. tddent Nominates the Tar
spplnsss I. ns : if Commission.
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thatre1 rGNeToN, D. c., June g.
N.Y. ssg sgtd td1cations at present are that
prda ariff commission will be COM
ttGaid of the gentlemen whose
FnHes follow: Messrs. Wheeler, of
ew York; Hayes, of Massachusetts,;
liver, of Pennsylvania; Garland, of
aillinois; Amber, of Ohio; Phelps, of
Missouri; Underwood, of South
Carolina; Porter, of the District of
Columbia, and Duncan S. Kenner, OF
Louisiana.
A copy of the dispatch from Sec
retary Frelinghuysen to Minister
Lowell, upon the Clayton Bulwer
treaty, was received by the Senate
to-day. The dispatch acknowledges
the receipt, through Sackville West,
of two dispatches from Lord Gran
vile IN regard to the treaty, and
states that he has been instructed by
the President to transmit the opin
ions entertained in this country re-
garding the traditional continental
policy Of the United States in con~
nection with the treaty, which are
that canal across the Isthmus for
vessels of all dimensions and every
character would expose our Western
coast to attach and destroy our isola-
ton, thus obliging us to increase
our defenses, and possibly compel
US, contrary to our traditions, to
take an active interest in the affairs
of European nations.
Lord Granville, in his dispatch of
November 10, 1881, says that the
position of Great Britain and the
United States, in reference to canal,
is determined by the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty of 1880, and that Her Majes>
tvs government rely with confidence
upon the observance of all engages
ments of that treaty. An important
object which the United States had
in view IN this treaty was to dispos-
sess Great Britain of her settlement
in Central America, and that the
United States was tenacious that
Great Britain should not extend fur
thes her occupation of threatening
military or naval strateghic points
along their maritime frontier.
To assure this, the par
ties to the treaty Jointly
agreed not to exercise dominion
over, or fortify, or colonize Nlca-
ragua, Costa RIca, Mosquito coast or
any part of Central America. Great
Britain, however, exercises domine
ion over Belize, or British Honduras,
and the impression prevails that
since the conclusion of the treaty OF
1850 the English Inhabitants have
spread into the territory of the
neighboring republics, and occupy
the land which belong to one of the
two republics, but over which the
government of Her Majesty assumes
to exercise control. Such domln>
ion seems to be inconsistent
with that provision of the treaty
which prohibits the exercise of do
minion by Great Britain over any
part of Central America. At the
time of the conclusion of the Clay
ton Bulwer treaty the English
privileges in Belize were confined to
right to cut road and establish
saw-mills, and were conferred by
the treaties in which Spanish SOW,
ereignty was recognized. Upon
the conclusion of treaty
Sir Henry Bulwer hled
the declaration under date OF June
%, 1850, that the treaty was ratified
with the understanding on the part
Of Her Majestys government that II
did not apply to Her Majesty's set
tlement at Honduras, and It's de
Tendencies. Mr.. Clayton answered
under date of July 4, 1850, that ht
so understood it, but that he mus
not be understood to either affirm o.
deny the British title therein. Eacl
OF these declarations wal
made after the conclusion
OF Bulwer, by the joint action OF the
President and Senate, and that th'
declaration was rot made or accepted
by them. The United States hav,
never given t1em assent to this con
version of the British set lement IL
Central America under the Spanish
American sovereignty into British
possession with the British sover
eighty. The parte to the Clayton
Bulwer treaty anticipated that th'
canal by the Nicaragua route wa
to be at once begun, and i
was under this anticipation that tn
United STATES consented to waiv,
the exclusive ard valuable righ
which had been given to them tina
they consented to agree with Grea
BIitain that they would not occupy
fortify, colonize or assume dominlol
over any part of Central Americs
and that they consented to admi
Her Majesty's government at som
future day to share i
the protection which they hav
exercised over the Isthmus of Pans
ma. The government and people {
the United States. though rich
land industry, were poor in none
and floating capital. In 1850 th
scheme for the canal, even withor
the complications of the Mosquii
protectoriate, was too vast for th
means of the Americans of that da.
who numbered then considerabl
less than one half of their number
to day. Tney went to England
which had what they ha
not surrendered, their exclu
sive privileges, and offered q
equal share OF all they had in thos
regions, IN the order, as expressed
the seventh article of the treaty
That no time should be unneces
sarily lost in commencing and col
s5ructing said canal" Through I
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