| Show TREATY SIGNED SHINED important Event Occurred at 1205 1203 Hay Signed Si ned A For the United States Slates and Lord for Great Britain British Press Comment Favorable Washington Nov 0 18 The new Hay IIII treaty was wae as at lit 1 5 by b BeeT Secy See Hay Ua for lor the United States and ond Lord the Rill fill Ish bh ambassador for Great areat t Britain Tb treaty U Is intended to replace tho the tint first l treaty That con eon convention was wa amended so ly by the tho United States senate at ot Its last cIon that the government declined dec lIned to ratify It Within a 1 few te weeks negotiations began afresh be he Secy tIny Hay and Loril which have Just resulted In hm the signa cigna ture hire of tho the new treaty drawn with special pedal reference to tho time objections objection II found by b the Senate with the first treaty From a II due of till the courtesy courtes which must InU t be observed towards the United Jolted E Stales Senate wherever r n 11 treaty treat Is III con concerned time tile department Is 18 estopped from making public the text of oC tho time thon new n convention and that will till remain secret until the Senate Itself It shall break the seal of confidence It U If in raid fd It at tho ho tate department de that the arlou p calons calone which have been made mado of ot the tho al nl text of ot the treaty reMy trent are all ous OUR and conjectural though In view nf ot the tho anther free Iree been made of 01 the he f of that he tho have hae ai tiMers It has been by the use Usa ot of the test of the Iho fiut treaty to con ono one In general tenus to the ne new convention Tho The principal point of 01 difference bo ho Jj tween n the new ness and time tile failed talI treaty l Is III the w withdrawal of Orent fr from m the Joint of the of f the canal cahl titus thus leaving the States Plates time tho sole cole le guarantor The id slon of tho the old respecting the right to fortify tormy the canal leaves leac that rIght by Inference optional with the I United States St tt All commerce of ot what Ile ever fr nationality passing through the tie canal anal will wi fare tare alike there item ther win 1 be 10 b no JO discrimination In tales rates in favor faor of at l United States fates shipping Otherwise the new treaty II Is In I n scope cope similar to ton last years years treaty It cp re to places technically the I ra treaty trea real concluded on o l April 19 l By Dr y the terms terme of at that old convention the tho United States and Grout Grent Britain agreed that neither should seek rook any uny adan advantages ages In rights of at transit mush across the tho Isthmus By fly the new ness convention Great Britain yields her right In favor Cavor of at the tho United limited States which Is thus at nt liberty to tu construct a canal Nothing moto molo remains to be done dOM as asfar aslar asfar far lar as aim n this lila treaty Is concerned before eror the tue Senate meets or Indeed until Int the treaty shall have been reject rejected ed cd or amended If I It should be ratified time the department will wi proceed Im item Immediately mediately to negotiate the treaties with wih Costa Rica Hea and Nicaragua for Cor which It I already has irna arranged In proto protocols poto cols cola pending before the Senate which wilt wi permit the time canal to be 0 construct constructed ed prescribe time the terms upon which tho the consent of Nicaragua and Costa CO t Hel Is II given Iven It I was In anticipation of ot this tills action It Is II presumed that lint the government only recently denounced time the treaty of at trade and nud I commerce with wih the time United States This treaty contained sections conveying rights rbt ns as lS to canal construction which ore are to be bo replaced replace by I more moro modern pro lIra provisions visions There hero was wal no particular ceremony connected with wih the signature of the Im Important Important convention Lord had hod been for lor several days past PMt and It was not nt expected that the tho I treaty trent should be signed before tho time end I of the current However to the tho th surprise of the state stute department cm officials dais cals time the ambassador appeared at the th state department at nt noon and unI the work of signing of at the time treaty treat was soon Iwon dU die dl posed of ul Time The scene Been was wan In the his lila historic tone diplomatic chamber chomber of the tho state department and besides the th principals Secretary Hay flay Un and ane Lord there were present Mr Sidney Smith chief of the diplomatic bureau burau of 01 the state department Mr rr Percy Perc him the second secretary of ot the Brit British i ish embassy and nn l Wm Owin and Ed EdWard Edn Ward n Savoy tho the secretary eel of 01 states private messengers ers whose whoso duty It was WM to attend the Of dt f the time seals eais M I The Tha treaty was a signed by Secretary Hay Hw with wih a n gold pen In a n silver hail had been berm used In the signature of 01 other conventions and Is the tIme personal prop property erty of 01 the tho PRESS COMMENT COM NT London Nov Nos No Westminster Gazette this afternoon publishes an oil In ar or Ir tide tco contending that even crete from u a British view point It Is that the United States should built exclusively and guarantee the of ot time the Isthmian I canal and that If Lord Level Lansdowne obtained full lul commercial LIc privileges In the canal for Great Brit Britain t talI alms ain alI the treaty will wi not bo be wholly one Aided sided The article conclude wih nu flU IU the public to expect to be bo pro iro pared ared to accept settlement which will wi substantially give gle us mill all ni we want hut but which outwardly will wi not appear to b ba be bea a n triumph of ot diplomacy By liy 1 the time blun dering doting of American statesmen h d we were put In an embarrassing position last year and amid we will wi show some seine ma If for time the sake of 01 peace Deac and good will wil we approach the th new s lent without a recollection of ot that event Let us remember that we have had some soma success In in recent dealings with wih America The Time Bering Dering sea Ben award and Venezuela treaty treat were both sub Bub substantially In our favor and anti If I we get open water In the tle canal we wo shall shah be bethe le letho time the gainers by the tho loss Iou of at the Clayton Duler treaty The Pall Mall Mali Ial Gazette takes a simi shah similar lar view of ot the time matter mater and says sas We Ve are surrendering a right we wo would never seriously think of 01 Ing but which might be Infringed at It ItIn atUn any In Un moment to the time serious detriment of British Brish dignity On time the other hand It Il ItIs IlIs itin Is in understood that compensation will wi b ba found In the time absence of heavy toll tol eli or tariff tarl restrictions The fht canal In Is I expect expected ed ei to tu be thrown open to the world and tho the opening of or that door will wi bo bu the time price the tIme British government for tor the time abandonment of ot the time Clayton treaty tnt The St James Gazette says We u e have confidence that the Ameri American can cnn people will whit wi recognize In iii the time aban abandonment of ot the tho treaty treat a 1 further lurther sign of the value alue we set st on their good Rood wilt will wi and the time earnestness of our desire to help forward their aspirations after greatness Hearty relationship be between lt neon tween mother and daughter are nrc more moro to tous tous us than titan academic treaty rights ON O CANAL CAI HEADY Washington Nov No It The report of 01 the Isthmian canal commission will wi It ItIs I itha Is ha paid nid be placed In II im the hands of the time President at nt the time end ol of the time present week The Tho Th document Is completed practically but tho the necessity of or Including some Important data concerning engi engineering engineering problems ms makes It Impossible to submit the tho report Immediately The Time commissioners have reached an agree agreement ment meat upon all al the salient facts to be ba presented In the report and as a already Indicated In the Associated Press die dis dispatches patches the commission favors the Nicaraguan project the coat cost of or which Is placed at about abut 75 per cent of ot the Panama Innamo project I |
