The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-28
TO RENEW NEGOTIATIONS
The State Department Hoping to
Secure a New Canal Treaty.
Lord Pnuncefotc Snid to Have Been
Assured by Secretary Hay of SEN
atorin1 support for Another Con-
vcntiOn-Grounds for the Belief.


Additional evidence that the State De-
partment has enough information to sat
isfy Secretary Hay and others officially
concerned in the isthmian canal question
that negotiations for a second Hay
Pauncefote Treaty can be initiated was
afforded yesterday in the announcement
that Lord Pauncefote had changed his in
tention to remain in Washington until
Mr.. Hay returned from his trip with the
President and would sail for England
shortly
1t appears that the decision of Lord
Pauncefote to remain here was based on
the belief that Mr.. Hay would not before
leaving Washington on Monday, be able
TO secure the views of a sufficient num-
Der Of Senators as to the character of a
new treaty that would be acceptable to
the Senate. As Mr. Hay has now OBJ
tanned the desired information and i'm
parted It to Lord Pauncefote. there is no
reason why the latter should stay here.
He will be in London during part of his
stay abroad and will lay before Lord
Iansdowne and the officials of the British
Foreign Office the ideas which prevail
among Senators in regard to modifying
new treaty to meet the views of Great
Britain Should Lord Lansdowne and the
other Ministers of the King be willing to
reopen the negotiations, exchanges be-
tween the two Governments will be re-
sumed when Lord Pauncefote returns to
Washington in the fall.
1t is difficult TO ascertain on just what
the State Department bases its hopeful
feeling that a treaty that will meet the OBJ
jections Of the Senate and the British
Government will probably be negotiated
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sincere in its belief that the Senate did not
declare against the naturalization of the
canal even in striking out the neutraliza-
ton clause and inserting the Davis amend
ment. giving the United States the right
TO defend the canal.
From what was said yesterday IT is I'M
derstood that an attempt will probably be
made to persuade the British Government
to accept a provision affirming the neu-
tralization clause of the Clayton-Bulwer
Convention, or else a provision that the
parts of the Clayton-Bulwer Convention
not inconsistent with the new treaty shall
stand. Either section would provide for
the naturalization of the canal.
The officials here, in holding that the
SEM did not declare against neutraliza-
ton, are said to be proceeding on the
theory that those parts of the Clayton
Bulwer Treaty not specifically repealed,
still stand. and that. therefore, the neu-
tralization clause of the Clayton-Bulwer
agreement would have remained in force
if tho Senate had confirmed the Hay
Pauncefote Treaty. Lord Lansdowne,
however, took the view that the excelsior
of the naturalization clause of the Hay
Pauncefote Treaty made it impossible for
the British Government to agree to the
convention as amended. But whatever
theories there are in regard to the effect |
of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty on the |
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, it is evident that |
the State Department is satisfied that the |
Senate will agree to some form of neu-
tralization, and that in assurances to this |
effect the department hopes to induce the |
British Government to renew negotiations |
for new convention.