The Saint Paul globe., 1900-12-25
TREATY NOW ON ITS NiIiif
ONE COPY GOES TO LONDON ON TO-
DAYS MAIL STEAM
SHIP
NICARAGUA AND COSTA RIGA
Attitude of the Two Interested Gen.
trail American Governments
Has Not as Yet Been
Declared.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-The state de-
partment has decided to send the amend
ments to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty to
the British government through two
channels-one copy being transmitted
through Lord Pauncefote, the British
ambassador, and the other through AM
bassador Choate, at London, who will pre-
sent it to the foreign Office It is the
understanding that the state department
will make no representation whatever
as to the changes made in the treaty;
the senate amendments will be allow
ed to speak for themselves, and the ac-
tion OF the department in notifying them
to the British government will be pure
ly formal. AS the papers leave New
York on tomorroWS mail steamer they
should reach London about New Years
day, so that the negotiations will GER
tainly lapse over into the next century
at the very earliest.
1t can be authoritatively stated that
there has been no proceeding, either in
the shape of written notes or oral COM
munlcations, between the state depart
ment and the governments of Nicaragua
and Costa Rica, that has developed the
threat on the part of those governments
to refuse assent to the construction of
canal over the action of the United
States senate upon the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty. All that is officially known of
the attitude Of the two governments
mentioned is that their representatives
here, Seniors Corea and Calva, thorough
ly approved of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty as the basis for the canal con-
struction. Whether or not the changes
made in that convention will affect this
attitude is unknown. The impression pre-
walls that not being called upon to come
to decision on this point until the
British government shall have passed
upon the senate amendments, the gov
ernments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica
will not anticipate that action by any
declaration at this stage. The British
government has not, up to this time,
given the slightest indication as to its
purpose on the amended -Pauncefote
treaty, and it is understood that the sub
ject will not be taken up by the British
cabinet until the draft of the amended
instrument and the advices of the British
ambassador at Washington are received.
The general results have been briefly
summarized in cables to the
London authorities, but in a matter
of this magnitude they would not act
until they were in possession of all the
Data by mail
PRESS STATEMENTS UNAUTHOR-
lied.
Under these circumstances it is evident
that today's utterances of the London
press, to the effect that Great Britain
will stand firmly on the Clayton-Bulwe
treaty, while indicating the popular and
to some extent the official trend of opin-
ion, do not announce a policy which has
assumed any definite sanction thus far
on the part of the British government
The Nicaraguan- minister, Mr. Corea,
was asked today as to the report that
he had protested on behalf of Nicaragua
at the amended form of the treaty He
said he did not care to discuss the matter
IN its present status, but pointed out the
unlikelihood that Nicaragua and Costa.
Rica would protest while the matter was
one of domestic policy. Later on, If it
assumed the concrete form of PROPOSE
ton to be submitted to Nicaragua and
Costa Rica, 1t would be for them to say
whether 1t was acceptable or not, but in
the meantime it was hardly likely that
there would be any protest or any other
actlon concerning a subject still in it's
creative stages in this country and in
Great Britain, and not yet before Mica
ragua and Costa Rica
1t also can be stated, not on Mr.. Costa 8
authority, but as a fact that the Nicara
guam government has not, up to this time
defined its attitude on the amended doc
ument. Mr.. Corea forwarded it with
full advices, but as the senate acted
only few days ago, there has not vet
been time for the papers to get before
President Zeyaya's cabinet. And even
then, as Mr.. Corea has pointed out, It
is doubtful whether Nicaragua will as
sert her position in advance of receiving
oyertures as to the canal 1t appears
to be the accepted view, however, in
Central American diplomatic quarters
that the senate confined it's consideration
to the interests of the United States and
other maritime powers, and failed to take
into much account the interests of those
countries most vitally concerned by hav-
ing the waterway through their territory.