Evening journal., 1897-01-13
.USSIA AND THE TREATY
|1inister de Kotzebue Makes
Significant Inquiries.
AEADIANs ARE PLEASED WITH IT

! omments of Berlin and Paris Journals
on the Arbitration Agreement of the
q United States and Great Britain-France
Wants a Similar Treaty.
E LONDON, Jan. 18.-The Chronicle S Wash
q gton correspondent says:
& Secretary Olney, replying to a question
Il the Russian minister. Mr. e. de Kotze-
s Sic. as to whether the arbitration treaty
8 ith England was offensive and defensive
n anything in the nature of an alliance,
u i'd that the question might be answered
E IS and no; that in the ordinary diplo
Elatic acceptance it was not an alliance,
Nat that it is an alliance in support of the
*Ionroc doctrine, which England recog
2ized by the terms of the Venezuelan
8'eaty. If the arbitration treaty is rati-
led Mr.. Olney said, it practically makes
reat Britain our ally for the maintenance
Nod enforcement Of the Monroe doctrine y
The correspondent of The Chronicle,
{)mmenting upon the above, says
q Mr. Olney recogissces that England Is
ne more natural ally of America than
Russia, whose hitherto professed friend
&hip for the United States is merely hatred
II England 1t is probable that Russia
& i'll do her bes. to persuade the senate not
$ D ratify the treaty
The Chronicle in an editorial regards
Nc foregoing matter as of the deepest inn
<ortance and says that it desires nothing
Eetter than that Russia should take the
Sourse indicated. "The scales will then
B all from Americans eyes, it concludes.
B The Chronicle published an interview
#gith Hon. Richard Reid Dobell, a mem
Der of the Canadian cabinet, who is now
10 London in which he says that Canada
&yould rejoice at the completion Of the ar.
Filtration treaty between Great Britain and
&he United States, and he is confident that
Nhe Laurier cabinet will leave no stone un.
Surned TO complete the good work, so that
Canadians as well as Englishmen will live
with the United States as friends and moi
IS enemies.
Not Likely to BE Influenced,
; The Norddeutsch Allgemeine Zeitung
E according TO Berlin dispatch TO Th'
standard. thinks the European powers ar
not likely to follow the example set b,
treat Britain and the United States in
he arbitration treaty Ordinary diplo
macy, 1t says, "will suffice to settle mon
+ " disputes, while territorial questions ar
lf very different Importance to Ehrop
. han 10 England and America, who ar
separated by the ocean"
4 The Boersen Courier thinks that tn
=. reaty imposes great obligations upol
America, and that it should in future no
. tolerate filibustering expeditions to Cuba
The Daily News Paris correspondent
says:
Next to England, with no great powe
( IF Europe is arbitration so popular as wit
France, who is ripe for similar arrange
ment with both the United States ant
England" "
An editorial in The Morning Post call
attention to article of the treaty, whic
provides for the appointment of judicia
officer Of any particular state or tcrritor
4 !, aicn may be involved in a question at il
sue as one of the arbitrators, of which tn
Post says
AS American politics is constitute
such a clause means that there may a
ways be an anti British element on thi
tribunal on any question affecting domir
ion or frontier. -
Altogether, The Post regards the treat
as rather experimental