Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-15
GETTING READY FOR II.
Members Priming for the Extra
 Session They Expect.


 Treaty Will Also Be Topic for
 Much Discussion-Old Records are
 Being Looked Up.
 Washington, Feb 15-In preparation for the extra session, now confidently looked for. members of the senate and house committees on foreign and on lnsui;lr affairs are gathering material for speeches on CuGa, which is to be the feature of the extraordinary aS- SemDlage. What the outcome will be with respect to the relations to be es taDlished between the United States and Cuba not even those having this momentous question in charge can foretell.
 The presidents message is expected to furnish the key for discussion of the problems considered by the ex- ecutive most in need of immediate so- luticn.
 Aside from the Cuban question there are senators preparing themselves for action on the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. It is held to be more than probable that the British foreign office will fail to make answer to the amended Hay Pauncefote treaty. That, it is de- clared, will cause the convention to lapse with the adjournment of the present congress.
 The intention of the British govern ment, unofticially, is understood to begin negotiations for new treaty in which the senate amendments will not figure, or perhaps will be modified. This program, according to the view of responsible leaders in the senate, will not be carried into effect. They express their determination of stand ing by the senate amendments in any negotiations, but such negotiations, it has been decided must be of the re- moteSt character so far as time is con- cerned. There are senators who as sert that the lapse of the HayPaunce- fote treaty by the failure of Great Britain to reply before March will tions.
 The treaty, it is insisted, will die through the fault of Great Britain. The study of international law to find precedents in that event for the abro- gation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty began yesterday. Further than this the extra session treaty plans have not matured yet there is talk of trying to pass the Nicaragua canal bill.
 The strongest reason put forth for seeking abrogation on the part of the United States is the alleged principle that a treaty may be abrogated when the conditions under wich it was made no longer exist. This, it is said, will be the case with the Clayten-Bulwer treaty if the Hay-Pauncefote treaty afils.
 A house report in the forty-sixth congress, made on April 16, 1880, by Mr Cox of New York, is in brisk de- mand. The foreign affairs committee of that day seems to have been unan- imous in the following declarations:
 1.-The circumstances in which this treaty was originally negotiated have been profoundly modified by the lapse of thirty years, and it appears to your committee to be entirely clear that It is an obstacle and possible peril in the way of complete and pacific assertion of the sound. necessary and vigorous American policy laid down in the pres idents message of March $, 1SSO. This treaty should now be finally and formally abrogated.
 "Your committee therefore recOm- mend the passage of the following joint resolution:
 "'Resolved. etc, That the president of the United States be and he is here by respectfully requested. if the same in his opinion shall not be incompati- bic with the public interest, to take immediate. steps for the formal ana final abrogation of the convention or April 19. 1850. between the United States of America and her Britannic majesty, commonly called the ship canal treaty or the Clayton-Bulwer treaty."
 Nothing came of this report and reso- lution. and nothing may come of the intention to discuss the Clayton-Bul- wer treaty if afforded the excuse ana this spring. Ihe course does not recelve entire but it is q fact that the pro iect is under way and that speeches al- ready are being prepared with the view of carving along the movement.