Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-11-03
GREAT BRITAIN AND
NICARACUAN CANAL
First Recent Official News In
Relation Thereto.
OLD TREATY ABROGATED

Lord PauncefOte Brings With Him the
Draft of New Document Which, 1t
Is said. Is In Every Way Satisfactory
to Lord Salisbury's Cabinet.
LONDON, Nov 2.-The first Official
statement of any kind made for
month in relation to the Nicaragua ca
nal has been obtained by the Associated
Press. Ii confirms the fact that Lord
Pauncefote, the British ambassador to
the United States, when he lands in
New York today will have with him a
draft of new treaty, abrogating the
Clayton -Bulw er treaty, which is In
every particular satisfactory to Lord
Salisbury's cabinet.
Since a representative of the AssO
clated Press interviewed Lord Paunce-
fote in London not one word ofnclaIly
authorized has been given out here with
reference to the canal.
Negotiations Unofficial.
The editorials which have appeared IN
England have been based entirely upon
dispatches from the United States. This
Is SADldlneu ny bAS AdOAAOA 0SVOhASAAAAG
announcement that all negotiations up
to the present day have been entirely
unofficial from a strictly diplomatic
point of view, and that on pour parleurs
only depend the hopes generally shared
for a successful bridging over the dip
lomatic difficulty. These pour parleurs,
however, have been particularly search
ing
The state department does not require
to see a copy of the important document
Lord PauncefoCe carries in order to
learn its terms, though, officially, the
negotiations will only commence when
the ambassador reaches Washington.
Until that time the exact conditions of
the new convention are withheld.
Though it is admitted that Great
Britain has agreed TO put the Clayton
Bulwer treaty to one side and to ac-
quieSce in the construction of the canal
by and under the control of the United
States, this concession from Lord Lans-
downe's original contention has not
been granted without some real or fan
cied advantage TO Great Britain. IT
would not be fair to say that quid pro
quo constituted the main feature of the
protracted pour parleurs. but that it
will directly or indirectly result, is
firmly established in the minds of the
members of the cabinet. One of the
most responsible officials connected with
these and the earlier negotiations said:
Chief Reason For Opposition.
"We never really objected to the con-
struction of the canal, but we did and
do object to cavalier abrogation of the
Clayton -Bulwer treaty. IT was in that
spirit that Lord Lansdowne couched his
reply to the United States senate's re-
lection of the last Hay -Pauncefote
treaty. It was not what you wanted to
do, but the nasty way you said it, that
was the chief reason for our opposition.
Since then we have been approached In
a rational, polite manner and we have
again endeavored 60 substitute for the
Clayton -Bulwer treaty treaty that will
enable America to carry out design
which, in broad sense, will doubtless
benefit the whole world.2
The modification of the foreign Office
has doubtless done more than anything
else to secure the assent of the British
government to a new treaty. But in
almost the same breath must be men
toned the state departments willing
ness to agree to a reciprocal arrange
ment regarding the British West Indies
and other British possessions This,
while in line with the views latterly at
tributed by special cable dispatches to
President Mckinley and President
Roosevelt, was so at variance with the
British generals experience Of the
American attitude that they now regard
it in the light Of a quid pro quo for
what they believe to be q concession
over the Nicaraguan proposal