Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-24

country at Washington. And says the
Chronicle, Americans who know and
honor him as James Bryce will esteem
him all the more because he declined a
title"
The iinding of a successor for Mr.. Bryce
as chief secretary for Ireland is giving Sir
Henry Campbell Zimmerman considerable
trouble judging frcm the many possible
candidates named. According to the latest
gossip Louis Harcourt, first commissioner
of works, mas declined the position.
Most of the newspapers this morning
print editorials on MIR BryceS departure
from the cabinet anu necessary changes in
the ministry. The Standard urgessthat a
much larger salary should be attached to
the Washington embassy, even if it neceS-
states similar increases in other embas-
sizes, as il says the existing salary is in
adequate 20 maintain the dignity of the
post
The comments of the Irish papers of all
shades regarding Mr.. Bryces departure are
rather cool They generally regard Mr..
Bryce as lacking in necessary sympathy
and as having been rather a weak than
strong Irish secretary.
The Tribune. in an editorial. says that
the close connection into which Mr.. Bryce
will he brought with President Roosevelt
will give the ambassador an opportunity
of pushing forward the work of The Hague
conference. Indeed, if, like Lord Paunce-
fotc, he We're to pass for three months
from Washington to The Hague" the
Tribune adds, lit would solve the very
critical question of finding a perfectly suit
able representative for Great Britain at
the gathering"
A Peace Appeal.
W. T. Stead. in an address at West
bourne Park Chapel last night, made
stirring peace appeal He demanded that
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman. the prime
minister, should be sent as the British rep
resentative To The Hague conference as
means Of showing that Great Britain means
business. He hoped, he said, to see Great
Britain, with the strong support of her
American kinsmen. leading force at the
CONF renee in an insistent proposal that
the powers agree not to increase their
ornaments and that article of the 1899
confe renee dealing with mediation should
be made obligatory.
Canadians Suspicious
OTTAWA, Ontario, December 24-Cana-
dams generally suspicious OF the ap-
pointIaent of Bryce to Washington The
prevailing wonderment is why Great Brit
ain has broken away from her traditions
and sent as representative to the American
capital one entirely outside the diplo-
matte corps.
II may only be that Britain has decided
to send the same type of man to Wash
ington the Americans have sent to Lon
don-a foremost citizen and d brilliant
scholar and gentleman-yet the feeling
Ia strong in Canada that under the new
regime Canadian interests will not be
handled with that imperial spirit which up
till now has dominated Canadian policy.
The general opinion of the public men at
the Canadian capital seems to be that the
appointment of Mr.. Bryce is a compliment
to United States diplomacy which sent
brilliant men TO London, and that a Cana
dian will also be appointed to look after
Canadian interests
The newspapers SO far are singuarly ST.
lent. The Ottawa Journal says:
We Canadians. shocked to the backbone
by the new evidence that the British diplo-
matte tradition Is to disappear at WASH
ington, cannot help thinking about Alaska
and Newfoundland and wishing that since
the British government has made up it's
mind to overlook its policy of appointing
trained diplomats TO high diplomatic po-
sit!ons, II had chosen somebody like kitch-
cner BeresfoTd'