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Show siiltls About Hie fango Trsalr, WAIIINaTOft, June II.'. A number ol Inquiries haroUen recelvtsl atllm Hli Vte Deiartnieut from phllantliroplo or1 iriUttion ffnd Individual a to the fall Itu of the Unlletl Htateetu signify lit a ilhereucu lo tho Congo treaty, the final ratification of. which must be caelum ca-elum led before the end of the month, Thl 1 Vtwty la an agnHwivnt to suppreea tlm a Vive trade, tlm aale of breeoli Icadln t tlre-artus and Inloxlcinta in Hie Cnm;oillslrlctofeiutorlal Afrlra, aud nea n'y all of Hie grea I luwera have acceiiteu' 1 1 To thelli'pili'ti.a the Htate Deiurtmuut replied Uiat tby aubject I still it'iidlug In the Unit 1 Htntt Hen-ate, Hen-ate, and the Ue( nrtment doea not feel at lllierly te ilhcusa thematter general-ly.l'il general-ly.l'il It I 1 roer lo say, aalhercsultof recent corrc-pondebct-,tliat It la not Improbable Im-probable Ihat the treaty will go Into ellrtl al the appnlhttd lime III leslicd In all of the tlgnabirlc except tho Unlled Hlates, and It will Im left i-cn to thla government to give II adhesion hen otter. The opnuenl id the treaty lu the last sctaloti of llm Henato link their stand uiaiu several propositions. One was that the approval of the treaty by the I'nMod Hlalea would cany with It Hie recognition of cettaln French claim to a large irt ol Lllierla, which recent event show are now being ac lively lushed. A that connry I rigardeil a ono of our wants, we could not petmll such an aggression, II la also urged the Unlled HUte could not, consistently with the Monroe doctrine, undertake 10 Join a plan of dictation liafctllig the affairs of another continent: conti-nent: and, calti, It would ba unwUe tor tlm t lilted Hlatiw to give recognl-Hon recognl-Hon lo llm present lather broad claim ot r.uroa4ii nation to Ihota-sl portion or A Irlca, which are tacitly ritMgiilie-l by the treaty. |