The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-10
Owners of Panama Canal Shares at the Bottom
Of the Quarrel, Hoping that in Some Way
They Can Hurt the American Project.
The Action of the House of Commons on
MarriageGrants Worrying Royalty.
Testimony Before the Parnen Commission
Colonel Wodehouse Has Another Sharp En-
gagement with the Fleeing Dervishes.
The Present Trouble Is Being Fomented
Holders Of Panama Canal Shares.

The Present Trouble Is Being Foinented by
Holders Of Panama Canal Shares.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
LONDON, July 9.-The main cause of the
difficulty between Costa Rica and Mica
ragua, it is affirmed from French sources
entitled to credit, is that the former re-
public has been induced by the parties who
hold the remnants of the Panama canal
scheme in their hands to claim jurisdiction
over the lower part of the San Juan river,
forming the boundary between the two
states. In case like this, and between
countries where party rule is of such q
transitory nature, and each administration
pronounces as void the acts of its prede-
cessors. pretexts and precedents for any
desired course are never wanting. The
Costa Ricans have suddenly developed an
intense reverence for the treaty of 1858,
which gave each state equal fuvial and
riparian rights from the Gulf of Mexico to
share of such rights to Nicaragua since
that time, it is claimed by the party which
has lately succeeded to power, was illegal.
both as ceding inalienable territory be-
longing to Costa Rica, and as an
act which was the result of
open bribery. Arms and money have been
poured into the latter state, and she is in
far better condition for war than Mica
ragua- 1t can be guessed where such op-
perfume aid came from. and, while it can
not be expected that the parties interested
will openly acknowledge their implication,
there Is open rejoicing in Paris at the prom
ise of serious complications. A former
power on the Bourse, who has been almost
as completely wrecked by the collapse of
Panama canal shares as NJ. Secretan was
by the copper corner, says: From the in
ception of the Panama canal scheme the
United States proved its most bitter and
relentless enemy. By its irritating and
threatening references to the il-defined
and impudent Monroe doctrine, it tprevented
the investment of English capital in the
enterprise and deprived it of the benefit of
that English conservatism which would
have so admirably supplemented French
genius and secured brilliant success for
the greatest triumph of man over nature. 1t
cannot be expected that we will sit
with folded hands and see the results
nugatOry, as it would be by the compile
tiOn of q canal through Nicaragua. The
company formed for this work has the un-
enviable task before it of cOnciliating a
jealous people and bribIng a swarm of
greedy leaders, each of whom will expect
fortune as the price of aquiesence: nor
can one count upon an end to their number.
We have had dealings with this class. and
know them well. When one set of leaders
is gorged, another will promptly relieve
them, and must be pacified or annihilated.
We do not believe that the United States
will make war for the benefit of a private
company upon Costa Rica. which state
ing rights which she had never, as state,
Surrenderedv ~