The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-04

fote desires to stay in Washington. There
are others in the service, where promo
tion is unusually slow, waiting to take
his shoes, and 1t would be a sad prece-
dent to extend the term still longer.
That is the official view, yet 1t is pos
sible, though 1t is scarcely probable, that
if Lord Salisbury is convinced that Brit
ish interests, which now include so many
unsettled controversies with the United
States. would suffer he might, within this
month, ask Lord Pauncefote to remain.
But to say that such step is prompted
by the political conditions In the United
States would be giving Lord Salisbury
credit for understanding something of
which he is apparently as ignorant as
the average Britisher.
In fact. it was only through inquiries
made by a correspondent at the foreign
office that the attention of the officials
of that department was drawn to the
many articles dealing with the subject.
But Lord Salisbury and the foreign office
confne themselves to the broad issues at
stake, and marvel at the accounts, at
tributing to them a desire to form An
American alliance, when the private opln-
ION of the whole department inclines TO
the idea that sentiment has very doubt
full value in international relations, the
colonial office busies itself with m mute
considerations, and apparently conforms
its actions and operations to meeting In
behalf of Canada the political feeling In
the United States as cabied by the Eag-
lish correspondent Thus, Mr. Chamber
lain several times, has protested against
projected agreements with the United
States, and has sometimes prevailed. At
present there pervades the colonial office
an overwhelming dread of American M
plications, Fenian raids into Canada, and
what not, while there are hopes of getting
the Alaskan and other disputes settled.
MR.. CHAMBERLAIN HOBBY.
The low ebb Of this feeling is not shared
in the slightest by the foreign office. Mr..
Chamberlain also exhibits almost painful
anxiety to keep in touch with the party
in power In Canada, the latest instance
of which is in his cable to the Australian
governments asking it they could raise
$500 troops AS published here, the re-
port said ''in the event of the Imperial
troops being needed elsewhere, and sew
eral papers interpreted this TO mean that
the government feared European hosdl-
ity. But 1t is learned that Mr.. Chamber
lain merely asked for troops, neither
mentioning nor contemplating any such
contingency as conveyed by the reported
addition to the request. 1t was originally
intended that these troops should come
from Canada, perhaps augmented by
who, by letters to consuls, the war ofiioe
and others, had volunteered, and with
these form a body of 5000 rough riders
for service in South Africa under Gen.
Sir Frederick Darlington. However,
swayed by the differences In the Cana
dian parliament and the reported disin-
clination of the Canadian premier, Sir
WiIfrid Laurier, to come out boldly IN
favor of sending more troops, Mr. Cham
berlain has left Canada out In the cold
and has asked Australia to furnish the
men.
CANADA'S NEW CLAIM.
Another curious view, which seems to
be taken by the colonial Office and the
writer's of the press in close touch with
that department, is that since Canada
has split blood for the cause of Great
Britain, Canada's various contentious
with the United States must be considered
as transcendental. In other words, to
halo the war heroism in behalf of the
empire. The considerations which Tor
merly influenced Lord Salisbury in deal
ing with Canadian-AmeTlcan matters
must now be sacrificed.
1t is needless to say that such an 1dea
has not been suggested to nor considered
bv the American ambassador Regarding
the Nicaraguan canal, no diplomatic com
munications have passed between " asn-
ington and London, and the matter stahu5
lust where 1t was when Great Brltalh
consented to the modification of the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty The British govern
ment has not considered any measures 10
he taken should congress reject or modify
the Hay-Pauncefote convention, such as
conditions governing Great Birtains OIL
fetal attitude towards the United states
as they exist today.