LE SrarEe deri eae Ake THE OMINECA MINER, SATURDAY, MAY. 3; 1913 RT er The Omineca Miner. PUBLISHED EVERY SaTurDAY AT HAZELTON, THE CENTER OF THE GREAT OMINECA DISTRICT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. Macdonald & Rauk, Publishers and Proprietors. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES; Canada and British Possessions, Two Dollars a year; Foreign, Three Dollars a year. ADVERTISING RATES: Display, $1.60 per inch par. month; Reading Notices, 16 cents per line for firat insertion, 10 cents per line for each subsequent insertion, Legal notices inserted at B, C. Gazette rates. Vou. II, SATURDAY, May 3, 1918. No. 35. The Ominece Miner has the largest bona fide circulation of any newspaper in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Advices from Ottawa indicate that the members of the opposi- tion are somewhat disappointed that the passing of the closure rule has not had the the dire results they predicted. During the week parliament attacked the large accumulation of legislation which has been held up by the Liberals’ obstructive tactics, and at this whiting good progress is being made witha number of bills, Need- less to say, the government is making no attempt to ‘gag free speech,” despite the predictions of the opposition. The business of the.country is being transacted in the time-honored manner, every member being given full opportunity to discuss at! public matters, but the opposition members appear to be in a mure rea- sonable mood since the passing of the closure resolution, and it is unlikely they will attempt to renew their campaign of obstruction, since the government has power to force a vote if a blockade is attempted. There is hope that the Panama rates dispute between. Great Britain and the United States, a question in which Ganada is deeply concerned, will be amicably arranged without any injustice to the shipping interests of this country or any other. On Monday Presi- dent Wilson declared his opinion that the question of the right to exempt American ships from the payment of tolls was a debatable one. He gave no direct intimation as to his views, but some of the senators who talked with him came away with the idea that he opposed the exemption and favored the Root amendment to repeal it. The justice of Great Britain’s contention is admitted by Hon. Joseph H. Choate, former American Ambassador to England, and perhaps the best acquainted man in the United States with the _Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Mr. Choate has come out with an appeal to President Wilson and congress to play the game fairly, admit that the Panama canal bill passed under the Taft administration was a violation of the treaty, and eliminate the clauses objected to by England, or at any rate submit them to arbitration, Mr, Choate had a great deal to do with the negotiation of this treaty in the summer of 1901. He was in daily communication with Lord Pauncefote, who on his side, represented Lord Lans- downe, the British foreign secretary, and with Mr, Hay, the Unit-}* ed States secretary of state, under whom he was then acting, The particular feature which Mr, Choate emphasizes in his argument, is not the commercial advantage to the United States, which the offensive clause in the bill unjustly requires, but that it involves a question of national honor and good faith toward England, The whole industrial advantage to the world of the Panama canal depends, so Mr. Choate says, upon fair play, upon an equality of business privileges for all nations in the matter of canal tolls, The Hay-Pauncefote treaty, Mr. Choate points out, not only care- fully avoided any exemption clauses that would operate against the veasels of any country in the world, but on the contrary, expressly stipulated for absolute equality. ‘The arbitration treaty of 1908, too, provided that in case of any dispute between the two nations which did not involve their independence or vital interests or honor should be submitted for arbitration to the permanent court at The Hague, That is, should the dispute so entangle the feelings of two nations as to imperil peace between them to the verge of war, that treaty provided that it should settled by arbitration. Mr. Choate particularly emphasizes this far-seeing diplomacy stamped upon the treaty of 1908 by the genius of Lord Pauncefote and-Mr. Hay. __ "Mr. Choate further insists that the point here in dispute was so free from doubt that no matter to what court it should be: sub- mitted, whether to a local court in New York, to the supreme court of the United States, or to The Hague Tribunal, the result| i would be the same. .| in and upon the premiaes -LIQUOR LICENCE, ACT: (SECTION 48) 6 san - oe oe aE NOTICE § is hereby given ‘that on the 12th day of May next, application |iRy .. will be made to the Superintendent of | |i Provincial Police for the transfer of the licence for the sale of Tiquor by retail nown as the a oa Hazelton Hotel, situate_at Hazelton, | BS British Columbia, from Edward Gourt- | Sargent’s — at the Fa avorite ‘Shopping’ ‘Place . io MINERS’ PROSPECTORS’ and SETTLERS’ SUPPLIES A ‘SPECIALTY « enay Stephenson to Royston Gordon| hy Moseley, of Hazelton, Brith Columbia. | fy Dated this 12th day of April, 1918... | J EDWARD CoURTENAY STEPHENSON | Holder of Livence, _ ‘Royston Gorpon MoseLEY 36 Applicant for Transfer, Commercial Printing—The Miner ey Print Shop. — Gi HAZELTON HOSPITAL sssezs, | for any perled from one month upward at $1 per month in advance. 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