Show TELEGRApHIC + D The United States and Cans Projects WaEhin ton 6On May 8th last Secretary JrenKhnyien Bent a lone dii patch to Lowell on the subject of tbe ra lationa DcWeec Great Britain and the United States to the various interoceani canal projects Without in so many words declaring the Clayton Bnlwer treaty abrogated the secretary of tate asks our minister at London to call the attention of Lord Granvillu to two points either one of which will serve to bar the i claim made by her majestys government govern-ment that the terms of the treaty of 1850 bind the United States to accept the proposition to share its control and protectorate pro-tectorate over the canal with Great Britain or any other European power The points are these First that through the violation of the terms of the treaty by Great Britain in gradually magnify ing what was at first a British settlement settle-ment in Honduras under Spanish American sovereignty in a British settlement set-tlement and possession the treaty has become voidable and may at any time be mode void bl the United States and second that the treaty so far as its terms were specific applied to a canal along the Nicaragua route and to that alone any agreement covering other canals or railways being expressly relegated to future treaty stipulations which have not yet been agreed upon and to whose forming and ratification Frelinghuysen presents strong objections Having made these points and having also gone over some of the well understood and reasonable reason-able grounds of opposition on the part of the United States to foreign intervention in tbe matter of a canal as being contrary con-trary to the Monroe doctrine and dangerous dan-gerous to the material interests of this country the secretary of state rests his case with the expression of confidence that the difference between the two governments gov-ernments will be satisfactorily adjusted before the canal will be built |