Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-11
TREATY WILL GO.
ENGLISH PUBLIC QUIET ON NJ
CARAGUAN QUESTION.
AMERICAN CONTROL OF STEEL,
Markets of the World Are at Our
Mercy-English Manufacturers
Secondary.

New York, Jan. ia dispatch TO the
Tribune from London says
Negotiations over the amended HAY
Pauncefote treaty have begun, hut there
will not be any real progress uhtil
Lord Lansdowne has an opportunity vi
submitting the altered convention TO the
cabinet, which will meet at the end OF
next week. The subject is no longer
referred to in the press, ana the 1or-
eign office can count with commence
on public support in any disposition II
may make of the whole affair. John
Bulls eyes are fixed upon South AFRICA
with a vacant stare. for he ooes not
know what is going on there. emma
lies outside his present range OF view
and Nicaragua also.
No forecasts of Lord Transformers ac-
ton are of any value, since he has not
committed himself in any way on the
canal question, and will not be pre-
pared to discuss it until he has con-
suited the cabinet There is, however,
more hopeful feeling respecting the
reimbursement of the convention and ac-
ceptance of senate amendments. Men
in diplomatic circles who have studied
the text of the amendments do not con-
slider them inSupara bic obstacles. 1t is
said that the Davis amendment is the
principal source Of trouble. and 1t is
based on analogies to the Suez canal,
where England, by means of political
control, exercised at Cairo, has defacto
the same powers in reserve with which
the senate desires to arm the American
government de jure.
The fact that American embassies in
London and Berlin have been taking up
some minor details of the China ques-
ton, has induced some tlippant journals
to assert that the Washington govern
ment has been wabbling SO long and
shown so plainly that it does not know
it's own mind, that the European pow
ers do not regard it's diplomacy as seri-
Gus. This view is not shared by the
men in diplomatic circles. They con-
slider that the state department has
appeared to good advantage through
out the Chinese negotiations, and is in
a favorable position to force the open
door" principle. They also regard the
rumored purchase Of the Danish West
Indies as prudent and statesmanike
act, which assures command Of the APP
proaches to any canal and precludes
European challenge to the Monroe doc
trine from any source.
Lord Roberts celebrated yesterday the
anniversary of his arrival at Cape
Town by attending with the Duke of
Cambridge the banquet of the royal
artillery at Woolwich. He accepted in
vitations only on the understanding
tsat the dinners would be private and
that his work at headquarters will not
be interfered with. This is a necessary
precaution when the situation in South
Africa is so serious. Gen. Kitchener 5
dispatches, while recording British sue
cesses in repelling assaults, show that
the Beers are attacking with great spirit
at many points and that their opera
tions are preconcerted.
Americas command of the steel mar
kets of the world, which only year
ago was regarded by Englishmen as
extremely improbable, if not altogether
impossible. is now calmly, if regretfully.
admitted by the English newspapers as
an existing fact. The Telegraph re-
CARDS it as certain that the United
States will keep the lead in steel and
will increase it, and at the same time
warns British manufactures that they
must be more willing to initiate the
methods of their rivals if they cannot
outstrip them in original invention.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's speech at Os-
goode on the relations between the Unit
ed Kingdom and it's colonies. is referred
to by the Times, which expresses ap-
prevail of the Canadian premer's re-
marks. 1t is to the continued main