The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-06
SEATTLE, WEDNESDAY,, SEPT. a.


Tt4o MAIN LIZ ~LAN RAGs& ns1s|s-~
We sim ind that the newspaper diplo-
mats are settling the Alaska boundary
disputs and all other matters In con-
troyersy between Canada and the
United states In a manner highly salts
factory TO themselves and creditable TO
their ingenuity as space-filiers- The
joint high journalistic commission holds
q session every night In newspaper row
at Washington. ID. c.. and as soon as
the regular daily settlement OF interna-
tional affairs il reached the telegraph
instruments begin TO click, the yellow
headline writer hauls out his blacklist
pencil and his largest type. and an inter
ested world Is given a few more point
ers on the inside history Of the great
Canadian-American negotiation, A par
ticuiarly brilliant example OF just what
the journalistic arbiters OF all things
temporal can do was recentiy afforded
by the Chicago Tribune. which unearth-
ed the details of a secret deal between
President Mckinley and Premier Lau
rier by which It was agreed to keep the
boundary question open until after the
parliamentary elections in the fall. in
order that he u4auriep might pose as a
hero before his own people withstandIng
the wicked and greedy encroaohments
OF Uncle Sam In return a blanket
agreement was to be made for the pur-
pose OF keeping the boundary question
out Of American politics next Dresden
tiaD year. The unimportant fact that
President Mckinley has never before
manifested any great concern as TO
whether the international line was 10
be drawn across Lynn canal or through
Kamschatka gulf appears not TO have
interfered with this pretty arrangement
The particulars Of the sabterranean
agreement are az follows.
4 Canada In to have the use of a port
on the Lynn canal pending a final adjust
menf OF the boundary matter.
:. Canadian logs and rough white pine
,"ssssA" NV w AZ" tftr itstD tE0
United States
3. American citizens are % haze abso-
infe'y free Access 10 Canadian fisheries.
With the right 70 land ic secure halt or
prepare their catch for market
Quebec coal Ia Ia be admitted into
New England duty free. SO THAI She Nv
England Manufacturers viii not be AT the
mercy OF the protected coal mine nwners
Of Pennsylvania and IVES; Virginia
X Western epnf-fbaf Ia ali sS.,. 80 49,
Aiieshaniss~~ss 70 be admitted freq into
Canada.
8 Great Rrftatn will consent 10 such a
modification or existing ,rea,isa that We
may build war yeseels In the lakes aSrye
Niagara falls and.
!. That Ne may build the Nicaragua
canal II we wsh. with certain guarantee.
IN regard TO neutrality in case VI war
To have evolved this surprising CON
venfion without previous publicity pres
ident and premier mus. indeed have
gone deep down among the angle
worms. II covers pretty nearly ali the
questions at Issue between the two cos,p
tries. which shows that The t,ploma,le
bureau Of newspaper row understands
Its business and the nations business,
The startling announcement that IL ia
proposed by Mckinley ana r.surirr 20
Impose a customs tariff for coal on one
part nj the country. and none en- IN.
other. NAV cause some doubt as IN the
accuracy os sha Trihane's information.
hat 'his proposed departure from the
plain mandate Of eur acknowledgements.
constitution may he aue a. haste ON the
part OF the correspondent rather than
trialng oversight on the part OF the
president.
Let Us try "a te cheerful under the
new treaty, II gives away pretty nearly
all the Pacific Northwest "a Interested
In. hss, W. may iook soy certain cornren-
saston when the newspaper ioGn, hlrh
commission h9lis another session ~,
vokes the old treaty and gives No a