Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-15
The cable Will be Used for
This Purpose.
IS A NOVEL DEPARTURE
But the Matter Can Be Fixed up in a
Less Number of Hours Than 1t
Could Have Been in Weeks by the
Old Way. y
- H.

New York, Feb. 15.-A special to the
Tribune from Washington says; An in
1sovation in the formality in exchanging
treaty Notifications has been adopted by
the United States, Great Britain n
Germany in order to secure the partition
Of Samoa with the least possible delay.
and for the first time the cable is to be
called into service to obtain results
within as many hours as under the GUS
tomary deliberate way would have taken
weeks, yet without any sacrifice of the
dignity or solemnity of the ceremony.
When the German emperor is empoW-
cred by the constitutional legislative au-
thority to ratify the treaty of December
2, which will probably be IN the next day
or two, the president Of the United
States having already the consent of the
senate, and Queen Victoria having exclu-
sive powers, it's provisions may be made
binding and operative within one hour
or two.
To This end an arrangement was made
by which the ratifications will be stimuli
t~aneously exchanged in Berlin, Wash
ington and London. Ordinarily these
notifications would have been exchanged
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here, but in view of the unsettled state
Of affairs in Samoa, which so long as the
tripartite agreement lasted might at any
moment cause further complications, it
was determined to put the treaty into
effect as soon as possible, with the object
of leaving Germany free in the exercise
of sovereignty and the suppression of
any disorder in Upulu, Savaii and the
western islands OF the group, while the
United States would assume RESPONSE
bility for Tutuila and the eastern
islands, Great Britain ceasing to have a
hand in the archipelago.
Great Britain and Germany also a
another treaty Oh the subject in which
the United States had NJ part, and it was
desirable that that convention should
became effective at precisely the moment
when the Washington treaty on Deem
Der 2 went into force.
The novel arrangement which has been
devised in this instance will probably be
adopted generally in treaty exchanges
hereafter. The usual tinle-cOnsuming
method is to send this official documents
back and forth across the ocean by mail,
and after both parties have ratified, ten
lays CIR two weeks must pass before proc
lamations and DEGREES can give the pro-
visions the force of statute. Already the
three copies of the Samoan treaty are in
the possession of the three governments.
The exchange copies are ready for the
signatures of the three executives and for
delivery to the accredited representa-
tives of the remaining governments.
When the cable dispatch comes from
Berlin announcing Germany's readiness
to ratify, an hour will be fixed, and at
that hour in Washington, Secretary Hay
will give to Lord Pauncefote and to DIR.
Won Holleben warrants of President Nc
kinley ratifying the treaty. In Berlin
at the same Count Won Buelow
will deliver the emperor's warrant to DIR.
White and to Sir Frank G. Lascelles, and
in London the queens warrants will be
handed to Mr.. Choate and Prince HAITI
feldt by Lord Salisbury. Immediately in
Washington the president will issue a
proclamation publishing the treaty. and
imperial DEGREES will be made in London
and Berlin to the same end.
If no German vessel is at Auckland the
United States collier Aberenda will take
the news to Apia in four days, the king
dom of Samoa will disappear, the United
States will be absolved from an irksome
ENHANCEMENT and nave undisputable title
to the only good harbor in the South Pa
cific.