The San Francisco call., 1901-11-03
CONVEYS DRAFT
OF NEW TREATY
Pauncefote Is Returning
With England's Assent
on Canal Project.
Nicaragua, However, Sud-
denly Decides to Renounce
Existing Conventions.

LONDON, Nov 2-The first official
statement of any kind made for month
in relation to the Nicaragua canal mas
been obtained by Call correspondent. IL
confirms the fact that Lord PaunceIote,
the British ambassador to the United
States, when he lands in New YORK To-
day will have with him the draft or a
new treaty, abrogating the Clayton-Bul-
wer treaty, which is in every particular
satisfactory to Lord Salisbury's Caolnet.
A correspondent interviewed Loro
Pauncefote in London since Wh1ch not
one word has been given out The latest
dispatch from the United States IS as
follows:
"All negotiations up to the present day
have been entirely unofficial from
strictly diplomatic point Of view, and
that on pour parlers only depend the
hopes generally shared for successfuI
bridging over of the diplomatic difficulty.
These pour parlers, however, have peen
particularly searching.
1.-The State Department does not require
a copy of the document Lord Pauncerote
carries to learn its terms Until the En-
bassador reaches Washington the exact
mitted that Great Britain has agreed to
put the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to one
side and to acquiesce in the construction
of the canal by and under the control OF
the United States, this concession from
Lord Lansdownes original intention has
not been granted without some real or
fancied advantage to Great Britain. 1t
would not be fair to say quid pro quo
constituted the main feature or the prOx
tracted pour pariers, but that 1t Will
directly or indirectly result Is hrmly
established in the minds Of the members
OF the Cabinet.
Never Objected to the Canal.
One of the most responsible officers
connected with these and the earlier ne
gotiations, said:
1--WE never really objected to the con-
structton of the canal, but we did and DO
Bulwer treaty" 1t was In that spirit
that Lord Lansdowne couched his reply
to the United States Senate:
''It was not that you wanted to do IL
but the nasty way in which you said II.
Since then we have been approached In
2 rational, polite manner and we have
Clayton-Bulwer treaty a treaty that VIII
enable America to carry out a design
which, in broad sense, would doubtless
benefit the whole world
The mOliifica ton of the Foreign Of1ce
has doubtless done more than anything
else to secure the assent or the British
Government to new treaty. But in the
same breath must be mentioned the State
Departments willingness to reciprocal
arrangement regarding the British West
Indies and other British possessions This,
tributed by cable dispatches to President
Mckinley and President Roosevelt. was
so at variance with the British Govern
ment's experience of the American atti-
tude that they now regard 1t in the light
of a Quid pro quo for what they believe
to be a concession over the Nicaraguan
territory.
Some papers say Lord I.ansdowne has
ramely given up inherent rights without
any return, which is strenuously denied
on the foregoing grounds.
hot Ia an ia Z fhla
fact that inner circles of the Cabinet are
not nearly so sure of the acceptance of
the convention as are some of the leading
papers on both sides of the water. When
the terms are announced it is feared that
some members of the Senate may still find
objections and that the forecasts so far
published alleging too sweeping "conces-
sions" on the part of Great Britain may
have a deleterious effect. For instance,
any way reaffirms or extends the scope
of the Monroe doctrine meets with a de-
NAL by the Foreign Office. For these and
other reasons Lord Pauncefote is not
likely to afix his signature to the docu-
ment until a majority of the Senate shall
have had full opportunity for studying
Great Britains proposal
Spirit Of Indifference.
In the meanwhile there exists here a
spirit of Indifference and a feeling that,
after all, the new treaty may be pigeon
holed on account of some unexpected Sen
atorial objection, though this development
would create the keenest disappointment
despite its present stoieal anticipation.
From diplomatic source there has lately
emanated private rumors that the Suez
t.