Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-14
COMMENT ON TREATY
St. James Gazette Complains Of the
Jingo Senate"
GREAT BRITAIN is AFFRONTED
Consent to the Amendment is I'M
possible, Says Another.
MAY PREVENT THE PROJECT

LONDON, December 14-There is no.
t!ceable absence of comment in the after
noon papers today on the action taken by the
United States Senate regarding the Nicara-
qua canal. The St. James Gazette takes
he occasion to lecture the lingo Senate.
which, 1t says, has again roughly rebuffed
The President and affronted the generosity
# Great Britain" The st. James Gazette
further declares that the action of the Sen
ate in ordaining that one party shall keep
It's advantages but that the other shall not
hc safeguardcd, is imprudeut, and if it per-
-ists in Its ignorantIy selfish course Great
i:Titaiu must fail back on her rights under
The Clayton-Bulwer treaty, whereby sne is
entitled to refuse permission to the United
states to buiid the canal.
The Pal Mail Gazette says: british
consent TO the amendment is impossible.
Everything for nothing is not a working
1rirciplc."
News Regarded as Serious.
The Daily Chronicle publishes a short
note. in which it says:
The NewS Is very serious indeed. 1t
means. in word. that the jingoes and
\nglophobes OF the United States Senate
nave triumphed, and that we are back
gain today where we were at the time
If the Venezuelan imbrogno and President
'I"Vc4and 5 InSolent and provocative
Spcech. The better feeling manifested
turing the Spanish-Amerlcan war has been
shaken by pro-Boer mpathy, and it is
loW sWamped by self-Interest.
II ne Americans intend to fortify the
anal in spite of the treaty engagement
- The contrary. We cannot possibly stand
ny and allow the Ciaytou-BuIwer treaty to
be thus imperiously set aside. The good
relations between the two countries must
II necessity be graveiy menaced. This is
he outcome of Mr.. McKinley's reelection.
" orSe could hardly have happened if Mr.
Bryan had been returned"
The Daily Graphic remarks: I'VE have no
doubts as to the result. Anglo-Amercan
craftsmanship will find amicable SOU
don of the difficulty created by American
jinSoes We fail to see however how the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty can be got rid of
without the Mosquito territories reverting
- Great Britain.
What the Standard Thinks.
The Standard observes: 1T Is moe of
-ebur to President McKinley's executive
han for Great Britain. England cannot
possibly accept the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
,hus amended; and it would be Insulting
- the people and government of the Unit
ID States to assume that they would either
Genjunce the CIayton-Bulwer treaty with
IIt Offering an equitable equivalent or
contemplate the gross il.egality of disre
SarGlnS it.
There will be time enough to consider
jhe abrogation of the treaty when Wash
.ngton formally tenders a suggestion,
which would certainly be approached by
Great Britain with every desire to assist
the United States 10 carry out a project
highly beneficial to American commerce;
tut it cannot be supposed that we would
abandon our treaty rights without solid
consideration in return.
The Morning Post, after contending that
England in negotiating the C.aytOn-Bul-
treaty, acting virtually the
representative of all the maritime powers
OF the world, says:
should the United States denOunce the
treaty, there is no means known to inter
4ational law of upholding it. The only
known method of inducing a state to ac-
Cept an obligation of which 1t is tired is
he method of compulsion. That method
out of the question and will hardly be
'roposed. but it Will be open TO Great
Britain alone or in conjunction with other
maritime states to consider whether
.ther canal, not under the control of the
Guted States. may he worth the making.
n this matter British interests are iden-
zeal with the interests of al the mari
line powers save the United States"
France VIII Not Oppose Treaty.
f'ARIS. December 1.-THE French gov
rrnmcnt Will not offer objection to any
ION of the United States Congress re-
-arding the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. They
prefer that the Nicaragua canal should be
Geutral. but they appreciate the United
states strategic reasons for fOrtifying the
ANAL. and Frances interests are too small.
. induce the government to interfere in
tuyway in the matter. 1t is thought. how
yer. that while il is natural the United
States should close the canal in case of a
war in which she herself is concerned, the
anal might reasonably be expected to be
eft open N the event Of war ,ween
Their powers. This. however, is only ~ ex-
yrcssion of opinion.