New-York tribune., 1902-07-26
CANADIAN PACIFICS OFFER
HELPING COLONIAL STATESMEN IN
THEIR NEGOTIATIONS.
PORTATION PROBLEM OF THE
BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
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London July 26, a. m.-Lord Strathcona and
the Canadian ministers neither confirm nor deny
the reports telegraphed from Montreal and Hall
fax that the Canadian Pacific Railway has Of
fered to establish fast Atlantic passenger ser
vice and greatly improved cargo service. with
complete appliances for cold storage. 1t is
probable. however that offer of some kind
has been made for the purpose of assisting Sir
Wilfrid Laurier and Messrs. Muloch and Field
ing in their negotiations with the Board of Trade
and in their conferences with the premers of
NewZeaand and Australia The announce
ment serves as a feeler for drawing out the
comments of the English press on systematized
efforts for fighting the Morgan combination, and
the earliest responses, with few exceptions, are
favorable. The newspapers here are aware that
there is a strong public sentiment in favor OF
defending British maritime interests, and they
now encourage it by sarcastic paragraphs at the
expense of the Morgans, father and son. and by
compIaCent references to the energy of Canada
and the vitality of the old empire, and the fact-
ity with which "MOrEanatic' agreements can
be dissolved. The facts have already been fully
presented in these dispatches. There has been
a determined effort to secure the cooperation OF
the colonial premers in making three offers to
the imperial government. one is for fast mail
service between Liverpool and Halifax; another
for a cargo service between Montreal, Cape
Town Auckland and Sydney. and third for a
mail service between Vancouver and Sydney.
Lord Strathcona and other prominent Canadians
are confident that the first object can be ac-
complished by the payment of liberal subsidies
from the Canadian and British treasures Nari-
Gus amounts named in the proportions or
two thirds and one-thrd. The second plan is
dependent upon the cooperation of England.
Canada, Natal. Cape Colony. NeW-Zealand and
Australia. and the proportions Of the subsidy
which each shall bear cannot be readily ar
ranged. The third project is stil in the air, but
the prospects are not favorable for carrying II
out in conjunction with the first plan British
officials are not convinced that a twenty-six
days service to Australia by way of Canada is
worth the expenditure Of an enormous subsidy.
If the first and third schemes could ne subsi-
dized. as the whole of the Australian mails
would he carried weekly by the Orient Line and
by way of Canada and the Peninsular and Ori-
entail Line would be knocked out. No definite
results have been accomplished. hut the i'm
perial government. without doubt is impressed
with the earnestness of the colonias VIII n they
offer TO put their hands deep in their own
pockets in order 10 keep the British flag free
from the control Of international shipping pools
There is no indication, however, that the Board
of Trade has broken of negotiations with
Messrs. Morgan and Dawkins in connection with
their shipping combination.
General Wheeler starts to-day for Paris but
will return for the coronation. He is taking
hearty interest in the organization OF the new
Anglo American Club. and IS deeply impressed
with Lord Robertss enthusiasm about H.
At the colonial conference yesterday, Premier
Seddon strongly favored colonial participation
in the defence scheme. but Sir Wi!frd Laurier
and Premier Barton made IT very clearly under
stood that they were not prepared TO ask their
PaTliaments 10 sanction any military eXpendi-
ture beyond what necessary for their own
defence. They did not ask the imperial govern
ment to assist them in their defence, and did
not propose that by any legislative form of com
pulsion they should assist in imperial defence,
but they quite ready to render voluntarily
in any future the same assistance rendered
in previous years in the Soudan and South
Africa.
The Athenaum Club which has the unique
reputation OF being the most exclusive and un-
sociable club in London, gave last night a ban
quet TO a dozen distinguished men who had
been honored with the new decoration of the
Order OF Merit. Nearly all the guests
members of the club !. y. F.