Show GREAT GRA T REPLY rr T HE REPLY OF ENGLAND to the amended treaty treat has hasI I received by the state tate department cep The general generl purport of the mes mess message sage sag s a as given give out indicates that Lord Lansdowne has pretty flatly re fusei to agree Fe to the principal amendments amendment unless some Important concession i It is made by lay this tas country The tone of the reply is said to be very friendly but it i evidently contains some things that the government prefers to hold holdback back bk What vh t th the ae are aI can c n only be conjectured Tbt principal bone of contention with wih the British as a was wan expected is the Davis Dais amendment giving the Hie United States authority to control the canal canals and s to protect prote It in the th event evet of or war Uh rith military and naval forces The British contention seems to be that not only England but out all al the European powers p should be taken Into a 8 sort of sentimental partnership In the project oct et to i TP MIS ns J and difficulties of or which are ae tc be borne wholly by the American Am people while every maritime nation naton in hi the world orld will wi reap Its Is share of oC the th benefit benefit This looks like a I very ver contradictory from a nation naton Wll l did nothing of ot the te sort art in the construction of the Suez canal Al AH the United States State aks ul in the present instance is what England then thel asserted and carried Cried out out It I is as Important that the United States maintain control t i i the isthmian i canal for the purpose puros of ot protecting its is own territory and maintaining the Ule Monroe io roe doctrine on this continent as a It I was for Great Britain to exercise a similar prerogative in the Suez Sues waterway in order to maintain Its It prestige in Egypt E pt As At to 10 o the tha treaty no vested oste rights have grown out of it for tue th rau that It I has ha ha been allowed to lie Io dormant since its execution In the meantime the conditions which then were some warrant for the document document docu document ment have ceased ce to t exist exist It I has become a contract without a consideration end and 1 as aK such It to is difficult to t see how England with wih any show of fairness can cn lay claim clim to baaed bd on this t ls obsolete state paper England Engla cannot canot hope to stop atop tho the eventual construction of the tho canal nor norIs norI noris Is I it i possible J to conceive that British statesmen expect to prevent America from m doing dohig what their own country has ha already sanctioned ed b by example In Inal all al probability the tho are ar simply sparring for wind In the hope of gaining some Ime concessions conce ions In other matters mattEr of or International dispute This is annoying inasmuch In as it serves sere to delay au an undertaking of the utmost im importance importance and ana It I becomes the duty of the administration to make clear to England tho the position of ot this country countr and then let congress proceed to the business of insuring the prompt construction tion of the waterway There will willbe wi be 10 no danger daGer of anything more serious than an exchange change e of Qt compliments by bytho bythe the tho diplomats diplomat The Th British position is Js too untenable untenable to be b made a t cause of ot offar thought far U oven eY n should her h r interests permit ermi her to seriously s entertain such a S |