Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-01-02
THE NlCaRAGUAN CANAL.

MANI lhS NSAihih oSCh pdotu'CS hSW'
-Amer. Poultry Journal.
THE NICARAGUAN CANAL.
History of an Enterprise Which
Will Cost $50, 100000.
A RESUME OF PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO
CARRY OUT A SIMILAR SCHEME
WHAT ENGLAND AND FRANCE HAVE
DONE IN THE SAME DIRECTION THE
ROUTE,
The Nicaraguan treaty, now before
the United States Senate for ratifica-
ton, is by far the most important
measure of that, character pending be-
fore the national Congress. The terms
of the treaty were wisely made public
by the State Department this week,
and have already been published in
full IN these columns. The treaty
concluded between Secretary of State
Frelinghuysen and Special Envoy Joa-
quinn Lasala, the respective plenipo-
tent.arles of the United States and the
Republic Of Nicaragua, is briefly this /:
The United States undertakes to con-
suuct snip canal to begin at the port
of San Juan de Nicaragua, or Grey
town, and to intersect the San Juan
River above the Rio Colorado, and
thence by the River San Juan to Lake
Nicaragua and across that laketo the
mouth OF the River Del Medic, and
thence to the Pacific Ocean at the har-
Dor of Brito. The details of consider
alton, land grants, tolls, ownership amt
control are already subjects OF general
discussion. With the history OF this
important treaty the public is not SO
familiar, however. Before Great Bril-
tain had recognized the independence
of the United States she had made at
tempts to seize and hold a canal route
by the way of the San Juan River and
Lake Nicaragua. Ia 1919 and 1880
Coils. Hodgson and Lee of the British
Army secretly surveyed the lake and
river, and in 1880, Captain, afterward
Lord, Nelson attempted. under orders
from Admiral Sir Peter Parker, TO selze
and hold the country, but was defeat
ed by the Spaniards and natives. The
importance of
INTFRocEaNIC COMMUNICATION
by this route was always borne in mind
by British statesmen, and when the
United States added largely to the ex-
tent and importance of her area by the
acquisition of California and other ter
rl,ory from Mexico, England promptly
seized San Juan de Nicaragua, OF
Greytown, at the mouth OF the San
Juan River.
THIS OCCURRED
N 1S4S after the long disputes with
England about the northwestern boun.
dry which was only settled by the
treaty OF July IS, 1916. There were
other fingers in the pie, however.
Louis Napolean, while a prlsinor al
Ham, became interested IL cana
scheme. Through the connlvance o.
Louis Phlllippe's Government he ha6
an interview, in 1874, with M. Castel
Ion of Nicaragua. WHO had visited
France TO secure the aid of the French
Government in the building of a canal
The result was a charter, granted BY
,, Nicaragua in 1916, to the Canal NaPo
: leon de Nicaragua LOUIS Napoleon
,, soon afterward escaped from prison
, and issued pamphlet In London con
tanning an appeal to capitalists in be
half of his Canal de Nicaragua,
There was undoubtedly some under
standing between the then Englisl
, Ministry and Napoleon, and in 1913
{ when he returned to France, England
r seized the Port of San Juan and named
, it Greytown. Her avowed object wa
,, TO "obtain control OF SO desirable /;
spot In the commercial world and fre,
it from the competition of the adven
| turous North Americans
, This action Of England which som,
thought demanded resentment, onl,
, resulted in negotiations, which wer,
ended by a treaty known as the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty, taking its nam,
from the plenipotentiaries.
THE CLAYTON BULwER TREATY
7 was the result OF negotiations between
/ the United States and Great Britain
: to adjust conflicting views and proven
possible complications growing out o.
long existing differences between thu
two Governments in regard to a shiE
canal or other communication acros:
the isthmus connecting North anc
: South America. At the time of these
: negotiations a concession had beer
, obtained by the American. Atlantic
4 and Pacific Ship Canal Company from
, Nicaragua. The treaty was undoubt.
: eddy in the interest Of this corporation
BY the convention the two Govern
ments set forth that neither lh'
, one nor the other will ever OBJ
t tair or maintain for itself any exclu