The Monticellonian., 1895-03-29
BRiThlN'S DEMANDS


 | Upon Nicaragua Merit Very Grave ConsId- eration on the Part Of the United States | Our Rights Under the Clayton -BuIwer l Treaty Ignored. Presenting a Very seri- ous International Problem for the Ad- | mtnistration to Solve.
 WASHINGTON, March o5.-Fhcre is absolute authority for the statement, notwithstanding guarded and technical | denials, that Great Britain's demand upon Nicaragua is of such character as to merit very grave consideration on the part of the government of the | United States Inspection of the text | of Great Britain's demand, copy of which was brought to Washington by | Minister Barrios, the special agent sent to London by Nicaragua, discloscs the fact that the conditions imposed upon this feeble and impccunious republic are harsh in the extreme.
 Great Britain demands E15, ,000 fS75,- 000) smart money" to be paid down before April It next, for the atfront to the British crown implied in the all l legged wrongful expulsion of the British proconsul, Hatch, from Blueiields This is an imperative demand. There is no suggestion of arbitration or loop hole offered for compromise or delay. Next, Great Britain insists that the claims of Hatch and other British sub jects for damages alleged to have been l sustained shall be submitted to a mixed | commission of three-one to be ap- 1 pointed by Nicaragua, one by Great Britain and the third to be selected by them, but not to be a citizen of any American republic.
 This stipulation, as originally given out by the Nicaraguan representatives, 1 was mot to be citizen of the United States. This statement gave oppor- tunity for technical denial on the part of the British representatives who said that no such undiplomatic and insulting discrimination had been made against the United States. But, that Mexico, Ghili, Venezuela, Brazil and other American republics are in- cluded with the United States in the embargo, does not render the fact that the United States is deliberately shut out from participation in matter of this great importance to the integrity of the American continent any less se- rious.
 Our interests in Nicaragua, espe- eially in regard to the problem of a trans-isthmian canal, are so great that the presentation of excessive demands, | impossible of immediate compliance, to be followed perhaps by the seizure of territory as q guarantee of pay ment, have brought the United States 1, taken in connection with the Nenc- zuelan boundary question, assumes importance of the first magnitude.
 The immediate question that may confront the administration relates to the extent to which Great Britain shall go in enforcing the prompt pay ment of this money, knowing that Nicaragua can spare no such sum from it's treasury, which, like those of most of the Latin American nations, barely sutfices to meet current expenses. It remains to be learned whether Nica- ragua can make the peeuniary apology required or give any satisfactory aS- suranee of it's future payment. Little doubt is expressed that Great Britain will seize something as security in case of default, and under the terms of the Clayton -Bulwer treaty the United States will have a right to know in advance just what Great Britain proposes to do.
 No such serious international prob lem has been presented to q recent ad- ministration as the present cue. Dis cussing the matter last evening, a leading official said:
 "Great Britain's exclusion of the United States from participating in the proposed arbitration is distinct and explicit recognition of the identity of interests of the United States and Nicaragua and of the influence of the United States on this continent, as well as confession of Great Britain 8 weakness among American republics. It is statement in black and white that England fears the influence of the United States over Central and South American governments and their inhabitants. The re- fusal to permit any man in America to have the casting vote of judicial tribunal involving only the small question of damages to few misunderstanding advisers of a miserable tribe of halfbreed Indians, is clear statement that Great Britain considers our national relations with Nicaragua as differing only construc- lively and in degree from our rcla- tions with one of our own states, and that in her dealings with the little republic she could no more than eX- pect us to feel the deepest concern.
 II may be wrong in my anticipa- tions" said this official, but l believe if the United States should demand an explanation from Great Britain of those words in its ultimatum excluding American citizens, the reply would be that Great Britain desired to have a thoroughly impartial tribunal and that the question at issue was one distinctly between Great Britain and the American republics"
 Death of Postmaster Dalton of the House of Representatives.
 | WASHINGTON, March %. -Lycurgus Dalton, postmaster of the house of rep resentatives, died last night 9:45 o'clock at his residence in this city of bron- chial trouble. Mir. Dalton was na- | nf Ral In |