The record-union., 1894-03-30
THE BLUEFIELDs TROUBLE.
Make a Nicaraguan officer
Come 20 Terms,

come 60 1efInS.
NEW ORLEANS, March 29.-Two ves-
sells arrived here to-day from Bluefields,
Nicaragua. United States Consul Scale
and Mr.. West. with the latest advices,
will leave for Washington tomorrow.
John McCafferty, wealthy planter at
Bluetields, in a letter to the Picdgune,
after describing the occurrence at Blue
fields during the temporary occupation
of the British marines, says: "No sooner
had the British marines been withdrawn
and the vessel steamed away than the
very unreliable and Incapable Lacayo
brought thirty soldiers and several boxes
of arms and ammunition from Rama,
This was in direct violation of an agree
ment entered into between Lacayo and
the British Consul in the presence of the
United States Consul, Hon. s. G. Braid,
that Nicaraguan soldiers would not be
put on the police force during the ab-
sence of the British warship.
1.-THE presence of these Nicaraguans on
the river steamer created great anxiety.
In less than ten minutes ], 1000 American
citizens, all armed with revolvers, ap-
peared. 1t was a trying moment. Ow-
ing, however, to the timely action of the
American Minister, Lacavo was again
brought to terms, binding himself to con-
fine his intruders to his residence. If a
shot had been fired there would not have
been a Nicaraguan left alive in Blue
fields inside of thirty minutes thereafter,
including Lacayo. who beyond doubt de-
serves to be shot for the many outrages
he has perpetrated against the inhabit-
ants.
"a general meeting of citizens was
then convened, when the action of the
citizens was indorsed, and it was resolved
that no assistance should be rendered to
81 I1 A I,,ll
main neutral pending the arrival of
United States warship, unless it becomes
necessary to defend their homes and
property, when they will be directed by
the United States Consul.
81 must here allow that owing to the
perhdy of Lacayo and the hypocritical
antagonism from the British Consul,
Hon. S. G. Braid has been subjected to a
most trying ordeal, and more especially,
as he has received no instructions from
either United States Minister Baker or
from the Government at Washington.
However, as Captain Scale, the United
States Vice-Consul, sailed from here on
the Goth, and lett for Washington via New
Orleans, together with one of a commit
tee of three appointed by the citizens of
Bluefelds, we feel that our Government
will be, on or before the 10th, fully in
formed on all matters connected with the
unsatisfactory condition OF affairs here
and for which Lacayo is responsible.
While every true American must be in
favor of the Monroe Doctrine, the right,
however, of the Mosquito Indians to con-
troll themselves according to their own
laws and customs within the reservation
as defined in the treaty of Managua.
should also be enforced by the Govern
ment of the United States. For if the Gov
ernment of Nicaragua should now assume
the direction of the affairs of the Blue
fields and Mosquito Reservation. the sew
eral growing Industries created and car
ried on by Americans and in which mill
ions are involved, would at once be de-
stroyed by arbitrary taxation"