Show i NOW HAS FREE HAND I I Uncle Sam and John Bull I Have Come to Agreement I AMICABLE UNDERSTANDING I Great Britain Agrees to a Modification I Modifica-tion of the ClaytonBulwer Treaty ton te Treat I I by which She Practically Relinquishes I I j I 1 quishes Any Claims Respecting n Legal Control of tho Nicaraguan Canal After I Shall Rave Been Constructed This Eliminates Fen ture of Dual Control of Waterway i I I II I j Washington Feb 4The United 1 States and Great Britain It was definitely nitely learned tonight have reached an I amicable agreement respecting the operations op-erations of tho ClaytonBulwer treaty I as auectlng the right of construction and control by the United States of the I proposed Nicaragua canal The result I marks the termination of conference I between the officials of the State dc parlmont and Lord Pauncefole of fully i a years duration during which a num j ber of meetings were held and the sub ject fully discussed by the represents I I lives of the Governments Interested Great Britain aprons to a mnaitlca I ton of tho ClaytonBulwer treaty by which she practically relinquishes any I I claims respecting a legal control of the I Nicaragua canal after It shall have i shll I I been constructed The result thoreforo I Is to eliminate that feature of the i treaty bearing on the subject of dual I control and to leave the United Slates free to construct and thereafter control thin great Interoceanic waterway In all the discussion which lias been had both in congress and out of it for I I a long number of years over the proposed pro-posed canal the questions of Englanda I I rights under the ClaytonBulwer treaty I I has formed a prominent feature and on more than one orcaslon has given rise I to the query whether or not the Untied I States Government had the moral rlpht Ito Ito I-to proNfde for the construction of the canal without modification of the I Ueaiy From the same authoritative quarter It Is ascertained that England has made I no demands for n quid pro quo for her abandonment of whatever rights she may have hud under the treaty and I I which she now promises to relinquish Just what shape the agreement be iwcen the Governments Interested is to take Is not named though il is assumed that some formal Instrument will be I drafted and senl to the Senate for Its confirmation I conlrmatlon |