Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-22
10 FORWARD TREATY
State Department Receives the
Amended Hay.Pauncefote
Compact Today.
Amendments WILDE Transmitted
BY Mail to the English
Government.
Washington Officials B believe That
Britain Will Accept--.Lodge
Explains 1t.

Washington, Dec 22The Hay
4 Iaauncefote treaty, with the senate
asaend.nsrts, was received at the state
department shortly after noon today.
1T was transmitted from the senate thru
4 the white house, The department. viii
4 forward the amendments in the usual
slcourss to the British government and
they win be on their way To London by
the steamer which leaves New York
sEnext Thursday There will be nothing
4 more for the departinsn TO do until the
British governmer nj has pas see' uI'pl,
1.-THE amendments. provees9 an uncon-
4 st.ionable period OF time is not 50 occu-
4 pssl.
III is believed that when England real
HES tllat the amendments > ass'snt'sd to
aby sssfulfigi relations eatflnsittfs were
kcnuceivec II a spirit slf lcyalt to so-
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'snsste sciely because IN y : pplllioh
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the United states ara consequently TOT
the sake of psacefui a9.a harmonious
let tioiss WITH the rsSsl y ttie Nor.a' oii
that subject IN the fusute. me Vo'T
n by wrich they We're ;tu2p SION ltsis.
The second q pa aftieiaifIeh' pass''si
. by a vote 81 10 70 ~, ard tsae oths'r t"lo
We're adopted without divlsion.
Ihe first ainendnleat ls simple
declaration that the Siayton 2 uiwei
tres fy ceases % exist anu IS suppressed
ny the ria ~ aul'eelo,'; ! tes' w ne oo-
Jet Of the latter was 70 remove tne
former as an obs'acle 70 the. cons sruc-
tionBof the istnnllhtls canai.a some sooa
Judges thought tilat the fay-Paunce-
fote treaty did this as " stood oth-
ers believed that certain portions Of the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty still remained IN
force 10 allow this scoupt TO continue
/, would have bsen grave lflista ke The
! American people desired 10 be rid OF
! the Clayton -Bulwer treaty finally and
beyond question. This is reasonaoi
! and proper wish and to fulfill 1t Sis the
Under article y OF the tiay-Paunce-
fote treaty, as' it stood We We're clearly
: bound. If engaged In war; to permit a
hostie fleet, II IT succeeded in getting
Z inside the thre<-inile zone. 10 pass un-
nolested thru the canal. This may OF
: may rot be prac tical question, and il
is of no consequence whatever. This
VAS the second amendment, which en-
I. |tirely Gispossa of any such promise and
:. (which follows exactly In principle and
almost exactly in words, article 10 OF
u the Suez convention. which reserved
simila, rights to Turkey, whose inter-
!. est in the suez canal is trivial conn
:. pared TO ours in that proposed in Mica
ragua.
The third amendment strikes out
Article III by which we engaged TO in
vite other nations to adhere to the
treaty and thereby become parties te
: IT, Had there been no Clayton Bulwei
treaty we should have negotiated with
no one except Costa Rca and Nicara-
qua aa TO building the canal. With
England. owing to the Clayton -Bulwer