The age-herald., 1900-03-05
ANOTHER QUESTION
 BOTHERS ENGLAND Probable Action of United States
 Congress RESULT OF SPECIAL CABLES Great Britain is Afraid America Will Want Intervention or Congress
 Express Sympathy With the Boers
RESULT OF SPECIAL CABLES

London, March 4.-With the triumph of
 the British arms the bogey of continental
 interference has passed into secluson and
 now a new and more curious, and to Ameri-
 cans more interesting phase comes over
 the fascinating web of international rela-
 tions as portrayed throughout the press.
 This consists of suppositions regarding the
 attitude of the American congress toward
 Great Britain, the possibility of its recom-
 mending intervention, voting sympathy with the Boers refusing to ratify the Mica
 ragua treaty. and last but chiefly, refusing | to consider the Canadian contentious in a | spirit of friendliness.
 The great public interest in all this is | mainly the result of many special cable | dispatches from English correspondents
 stating that the administration is being se- verely attacked for alleged friendliness to- | wards Great Britain and in view of the | coming election might be forced to make | some sort of anti-British demonstration in | order to offset such accusations as that of | forming an alliance To cap the climax l comes strenuous appeal in the Times to- | day that Lord Pauncefote the British ann | bassador at Washington, should be retained | at any rate until the election is over. While | an utterly incorrect New York special ayers that communications passing between London and Washington towards this end, vivid pictures are drawn of possible com plications which might ensue were the anti British sentiment to become ascendent
 either in the present congress or in the next
 election Both in the cable dispatches and
 in the comments made here. it is inferred
 that Lord Salisbury is, or should be, taking
 a lively interest in these contingencies and an active part in assisting Those persons in the United States who exhibit friendli- ness towards Great Britain.
 Considered From Two Points
 Inquiries made by the Associated Press in | regard to this situation reveal the fact that l the governments attitude, which is the | only ono worth anything at present, must | be considered from two points of view, that 1 of the foreign office and that of the colonial l office. Between these there Is a great gulf, | daily widening, not so much personally be- | tween Lord Salisbury and MT. Joseph
 Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the
 colonies, as between their departments. For | weeks the friction has been growing until
 the colonial office is at loggerheads not only | with the foreign office, but with almost | every other department. To such an ex-
 tent has this gone that any minor detail | of business submitted to the colonial office | by outsiders, but requiring the sanction l say, of the war office, is almost certain to | fail to go through, owing to MT. Chamber | lain's unwillingness to cooperate with. | other heads. Even should it be accom- | plished it is with degree of distant for | al to of ara io1 | as unmasked hostility. It is the foreign of- | flee and the colonial office which may be
 said to be chiefly concerned in the relations
 with the United States. The former meets all the situations broadly, as it would in I dealing with any continental power. The l latter looks at all United States matters | through the eye of Canada. Hence be- l tween the two departments there are diff l ferences of opinion and sometimes friction. l Salisbury Taking Little Interest
 | Regarding Lord Salsbury's point of view, | the Associated Press is able to say that for l some time past, he has been taking little 1 interest In American politics, and that he l is averse to any form of an Anglo-Amer- | ican alliance, believing that the constitu- | tion of the United States is unsuited to such bond. To use the words of one who is in the close confidence of the pre-
 mier, "the politics of the United States | have such an influence on foreign policy | and render the duration of supreme power | so uncertain, that any alliance would kill l itself quicker than any one could kill it." But to say that such step is prompted
 by the present conditions in the United | States would be giving Lord Salisbury
 credit for understanding something of | which he is apparently almost as ignorant
 as the average Briton In fact, it was only l true in inquiries made by a correspondent