Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — REJECTED BY BRITAIN. [ARTICLE]

REJECTED BY BRITAIN.

Reaate Amendments to the Canal Treaty Turned Down. Great Britain flatly refuses to accept the Hay-Pauncefote treaty as amended by the Senate. Ambassador Pauncefote Monday received the answer of his Government and at once communicated it to Secretary of Stnte Hfy. The* British answer is a dignified but complete rejection §( the Senate amendments, and it leaves upon the United States Government the responsibility for any further action that, may be deemed expedient. Lord Pauncefote came to the State Department at noo* by appointment, •ays a Washington correspondent. He brought the answer with him and read it to Secretary Hay. It was, in form, an instruction from Lord Lansdowne, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Lord Pauncefote, and of this instruction he left a copy with Secretary Hay. The Secretary and the Ambassador were closeted for half an hour. At the conclusion of the conference It was stated that the instruction of Lord Pauncefote was to notify the Government of the United States that the British Government did not see its way clear to the acceptance of the Senate amendments. The amendments were treated in detail at some length, In argumentative fashion, the purpose of the British Government being to show that it had sound reason for declining to'Weept them. After disposing of the details, the note concluded with an expression of regret that auch a course was forced upon the British Government. There was nothing in the nature of a counter proposition, nor was any opening left for further action by the British Government. It was stated that if there is to be a further attempt to amend the Clayton-Bulwer treaty so as to authorize the United States to construct a water way across the isthmus, then It is for the United States to make the overture; the British Government simply drops the matter at this point.