Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-19

crS anu Nicaragua another, ana these two are to choose a third, who shall not be q citizen of the United States. It was also made known that British warship is now on her way to Nicaragua to enforce these demands, which must be complied with within seven weeks from the 25th of February last, tho date of the ultimatum
 Spain's Answer Kept Secret.
 WASHINGTON, March 19.-It Is impossi- ble to learn positively whether tho state department has been fully advised official ly of the severe demands made upon Mica ragua by Great Britain, as reported in the cable dispatches from Managua, but from the fact that General BarrioS, who was appointed a special ambassador by the Nicaraguan government to endcavor to settle the differences with Great Britain, has been in Washington for a week and has paid several visits to tho state depart ment in company with Dr. Guzman, the resident Nicaragua minister, 1t is assumed that our own government is fully posted in regard to the matter.
 It cannot be denied that this new incl dent, taken in connection with tho hostile attitude of Great Britain toward our sis ter republic of Venezuela, promises to lead to trouble of a character much moro SC rious than tho littlo incident of the Al lianca. The administration is evidently about to be put in a position whoro it must lay down n new construCtio of tho NIon- roo doctrine or else abandon all concern in the future of the smaller republics of Con- tral and South America.
 In Venezuela it is alleged that the Brit ish arc steadily extending their boundary line and enoroaching upon Venezuelan territory in spite of the strong protests Of nlnY, o,,A | In poated urging of the United States that the question of tho boundary should bo settled by resort to arbitration-noto of q part of the question, excluding tho main issue, as desired by Great Britain, but by tho submission of the whole issue. But thore are also questions of indemnity arising in Venezuela growing out of claims preferred by other European nations, and there are indications noted by officials here to show that thcsc arc being pressed by concerted action.
 Many of the claims for indemnity grow put of tho failure of these republics to meet their obligations to foreign debtors under the stress of hard times and tho in- tluence of the worldwide depression in trade. As the European governments ap- pear to bc moving to collect these individ- ual debts on their own account, it Is question that the United States must speed fly sottle as to how far it is prepared to permit this process to go on.
 Reflection on American Citizens.
 As to Nicaragua, 1t Is felt hero that tho terms of tho British ultimatum arc un- duly severe. Besides thcrC is a rather dis agrcCahlo reflection upon American cit izens in tho stipulation that none such shall scrvo on tho commission to adjudSc the damages.
 On tho whole. it is moro than probable that the president will fccl called upon to interposc to secure at least an ameliora- tion of the terms of the ultimatum by an appeal to the British government repre- senting tho great hardship that 1t would work to Nicaragua under the present. de- pressed condition of her finances to prefer demand for so largo an indemnity as k75, 900.
 Mystery surrounds the negotiations between the state department and tho Spanish government in the Allianca af- fair It seems to have been impressed upon the officials of the state depart mcnt from the secretary down that in the present ex- cited state of public feeling in this coun- 1 try better progress can bo made toward 8 peaccablo settlement of tho incident by keeping tho various notes secret than by giving publicity to them before a conclu- sion has been roachcd. Therefore the only response to definite inquiries that can Do | obtained is n positive refusal to discuss | the subject in any respect, and whether or not any action has yet been taken by the | Spanish government in tho direction of Issuing instructions to its naval officers to | refrain from further interference with American shipping will probably be learn cd first from Havana, from which point | the orders will be distributed
 As the little gunbOats arc widely scat | tered along the Cr ban coast and neigh boring waters. it will not be an easy task to communicate these orders speedily to all of them, so it Is just possible that | there may be some further incident sim | liar to the Allianca affair before these or ders are made known to the Spanish na- | val commanders
 It appears. in the light of events of this | kind in the past, that the commanding officers of the smaller craft are not always of a high degree of intelligence or rank, | for in cases where they have detained
 American ships they have found it neces-
 sary to hold the ship for several days in
 order that they might fall in with another | and larger cruiser with an officer aboard
 of sufficient intelligence to read and pass
 upon the adequacy of tho captives papers.
 The general impression here is that the
 hllianoa incident has already passed the
 acute phase and may be safely left to dip lomatic adjustment in the ordinary course.
 The Spanish minister has in advance as
 sured the state department that if Spain
 was in the wrong in the matter she would
 speedily and voluntarily make all proper
 reparation, and it is not doubted that il
 she has not already done so Spain will
 soon instruct her naval officers to abstain
 from stopping American ships. The only
 questions then left to be settled will be
 questions of fact as to the location of tht
 Allianea when she was first signaled, th'
 exact attitude toward her of the Spanish
 cruiser and tho question of internationa
 law as to the right of search inside of thu
 marine league tho last only in casc it fl
 shown that the Allianca was within tha
 limit
 Many High Officials Indicted by the Gran | Jury.
 NEW YORK, March 19.-The extraoI
 dinary grand jury of the court of oyer an | which hnS boon in almost epn