The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-11
TREATY TAKEN UP.
Negotiations Over Hay-Pauncefote
Document Begun in London.

Document Begun in London
New York. Jan. IA dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
Negotiations over the amended Hay
Pauncefote treaty have begun. but there
VII. not be any real progress until Lori
LansdOwne has an opportunity of sub
uniting the altered convention to The
cabinet which win meet at the end OF
next week The subject is no longer r.
ferred to in the press and the foreign
office can count with confidence upon
public support in any disposition it may
make OF the whole affair John Bulls
eyes are fixed upon South Africa with a
vacant stare, for he does not know whAc
IL going on there. China lies outside hta
present range Of vision and Nicaragua
also. Nc forecasts Of Lord Lans-
doWne's action are OF any value since
he has not committed himself in any
way on the canal question and viii not
be prepared 10 discuss it until he hSS
consulted the cabinet There Is. however
"a more hopeful feeling respecting the
readjustment Of the convention and 9c-
ceptance of the senate amendments
Men in diplomatic circles who have
studied the text Of the amendments do
not consider them insuperable obstacles
They assert that the foreign Office car
ries two points in which it is chiefly in
terested- One Is the construction OF the
CAlAA lIL LAc OLnHE IS the A0DplACu 81
Suez rules They explain, furthermore.
that fortIdcatfon at the ends of the ca
nal is prohibited. that England is not
concerned in American refusal to con-
sulc other maritime powers 50 long as
she herself has agreed to the new con-
VentiOn, that the two governments
meant to have the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty supersede the Clayton-Bulw
treaty, and that the formal clause is
not Of serious consequence They say
that the Davis amendment is the prinCi
pal source OF trouble and it is based On
analogies to the Suez situation, where
England by means Of political control
exercised at Cairo has de factO the
same powers in reserve with which the
senate desires TO arm the American gov
er1ment de jure.
The fact that the American embassies
IN London and Berlin have been taking up
some minor details of the Chinese cues
assert that the Washington government
has been webbing SO long and shown 80
plainly that it does not know its own
mind that the European powers do not
regard It's diplomacy as serious This
view is not shared by the men in diplo-
matte circles They consider that the
state department has appeared to good
uauous and IS in favorable position 10
ENFORCE the open door principle. They
Danish West Indies as a prudent and
staresmanlixe act. which assures COM
Monroe doctrine from any source.
YESTERDAY
anniversary Of his arrival at Cape Town
by attending with the Duke Of Cam bridge
the banquet of the Royal artillery at
WooIWlch- He accepts Invitations only
on the understanding that the dinners viii
pc private and that his work at head
quarters will not be interfered with This
is g necessary preCaution when the stu
alton IN South Africa is so serious. Cen
eraI kltchener's dispatches. while record
1ng British successes IN repellfng assaults
show that the Beers are attacking with
great spirit at many points and that their
operations are precCncerted.
Americas command Of the steel markets.
or the world, which only a year or two
ago was regarded by EnElishrnen as ex-
tfernety 1mpro able. If not altogether inn
possible. is now calmly. If regretfullv ad-
mitted BY the English newspapers as an
existing fact. The Telegraph regards H.
rs certain that the United States will
keep the lead fin steel and will Increase IL
ana al the same time warns British manu-
1aclurers that they must be more willing
70 initiate the methods Of their rivals IL
Nney cannot outstrip them in original in
venticn-
Sir Nilfrid Laurier's speech at Osroode
on me relations between the United King
com and its colonies is referred to bv the
ZINES. winch expresses approval of the
canadian preEnler's remarks 1T is to the
continued com btnation of the fullest and
most intense local patriotism with hfgh
1nper1al spirit that the Times looks Tor
Ware with confidence for perpetual union
q England and her children