The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-23
CANADA WILL
SEND ENVOY
RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE OF
DOMINION At WASHINGTON.
REASON FOR new PLAN
Too Exclusively English Policy Of
London Foreign Office N~egIectfuI
Of Canadian Interests.

of Canadian Interests.
Washington, Sept. 19.-Washingtor
is about, according to stories said to
be confirmed to a great extent from
Ottawa, to receive an addition to the
foreign diplomatic corps in the preson
of a resident representative of the
Dominion government.
Canada has long complained that
her interests ere neglected at Wash.
ington by the British embassy there,
and that they were sacrificed to con-
siderations of what may be described
as the too exclusively English policy
OF the foreign Office in London. It is
true that the interests Of Canada and
of her mother country often conflict
at Washington, and that the ambassa-
dor is frequently forced to refrain
from pushing Canadian questions of
urgent Importance in Difference to the
instructions received from home to
show himself particularly conciliatory
to the United States administration.
In fact, it is almost impossible for a
British ambassador at washington
to satisfy at one and the same time
the foreign Office in England and the
Dominion government at Ottawa.
1t is with the object of having Ca
madam interest more satisfactorily
and efficiently represented at Wash
ington than heretofore that Sir Will
frid Laurier has now decided to ac-
credit a special envoy to the United
States government, who will work in
dependently of the British embassy,
who will hoist, not the union jack,
but the Dominion flag, above his le-
cation, and who will occupy, in one
word, much the same position as M.
Fabre does at Paris.
For the Canadian government has
already, since several years past, had
its W representative at Paris,
through whom it deals with the
French government independently of
the English foreign office or of the
English embassy on the banks of the
Seine. M. Fabre, who is a French
Canadian, is ignored, it is true, by the
British embassy in Paris. But he is
recognized by the French government,
and during the recent ~sojourn of Sir
Wllfrid Laurier, the Canadian pre-
mier, in the French capital, it was
he, and not the British ambassador,
who made all the arrangements for
the reception and entertainment of
Sir Wilfrid by the president of the
republic and by the minister
foreign affairs, Delcasse.
Sir Wilfrid was treated throughout
his stay at Paris by the French gov
eminent as If he had been the pre-
of a sovereign state or com
.cnwealth, instead of an English de-
tendency: and he admitted having
discussed, both with President Loubet
and with the French minister of for
elgn aIairs, the promotion of a special
Inc OF steamers running from the
to France, without touching
at any English port, and to be heavily
subventioned by the Canadian govern
ment. President Loubet gave a big
Inner in his honor and Delcasse a
luncheon at the ministry of foreign
affairs on the Quai d'Orsay, and at
OF these entertainments, while
The diplomats of other countries were
present, those Of England were CON
splcuous only by their absence.
From this it will be seen thai there
IS nothing so extraordinary or unpre.
,edented, from a Canadian point OF
view at any rate, in the project to
nave a Canadian minister accredited
o the United States government and
'esident at Washington. For, after
III, the interests of the dominion in
he United States are vastly more i'm
and extensive than those
which she has in France, and infinite
y more requisite of being specially
represented and dealt with by a dele
rate appointed lad hoe"
1t remains to be seen whether the
British government will offer any OBJ
ection to this new departure on the
'art OF the dominion. Judging by the
one which Sir Wilfrid has been per-
nitted to assume in London, and by
he attitude which he has been allow
d to take up with regard to the
french republic while in Paris, the
will not venture to veto the
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