The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-30
WILL CALL OFF HER SHIPS
GREAT BRITAIN BACKS DOWN IN
 THE NICARAGUA AFFAIR.

President Zelaya will Send a Reply in n
 Few HOurs-It is Believed He Win Ac-
 cept the Terms That Are Proposed.
 London, April 29.-A Managua dis
 patch says:
 At a late hour this evening President
 zelaya received telegram from Wash
 ington stalting that Great Britain
 would withdraw her ships from Cornto
 and give Nicaragua fifteen days in
 which to pay the S75 900, if such prop
 osition would be accepted by Nicaragua.
 The dispatch also states that SO far
 as the remaining conditions in the ul-
 tlmatum were concerned they should be
 so modified as to meet the objections
 of Nicaragua. It is understood that
 these propositions are the result of the
 efforts of the United States to bring
 about settlement of the pending diff
 culty in manner alike honorable to
 both countries.
 Upon the receipt of the dispatch
 President zelaya at once held an audi
 ence with his principal advisers and a
 reply will probably be made within
 few hours. President Zelaya, it Is be-
 lieved, will be disposed to accept the
 terms outlined dn the dispatch It
 will, however, require careful consid-
 eration, owing to the intense hostility
 which exists against the British govern
 ment and the willingness on the part
 of some of the people to continue the
 struggle indefinitely.
 New York, April 29-Frederic R.
 Coudert, whose work as member of
 ,ie--,s
 demonstrated his profound knowledge of international law, declared today
 that the administration might as well as get out of business, if not it had not exacted from the British government pledge that the occupation of Corinto would only be temporary,
 Undoubtedly the state department has received from Great Britain's rep resentatives a satisfactory assurance in this regard" said MT. Coudert. 1T judge this to be the case from my per- sonal acquaintance with the gentlemen who are dictating our governments policy. An administration that would not enforce the principle of the nom occupation by foreigners of American territory might as we'll as make it's last testament and call in an undertaken.
 AC o11IlSIt SOiIl6 NOWll LllGIt lO collect claim which has never been abjudicated by any power than them selves, which rather shocks law abiding citizen. They are at once the | plaintiffs, the judges, the executioners, | I understand that Nicaragua was will ling to arbitrate. If the affair had | been that of the United States or Germany 1t would have been arbitrated. But little Nicaragua was not important enough to get up an ar- bitration with, and they have throttled | her. Now. if the Nicaraguans had been scared into submission, paid over the $75, ,0O0, and Admiral Stephanson had | been gone with the money, we would | have had nothing to say. But if they are going to blow up towns on our con- tinent, if they are going to take terri tory and appropriate it, you will have a hornets nest somewhere before long.
 "Our sympathies would naturally go with the weak side and particularly with the American side. In an age where we are trying to settle all international questions by arbitration, to see them setting the British Hon to roaring and foaming at the mouth and flashing his tail, is discouraging.
 "You cannot tell what the Spaniards will do. No matter how degenerate they may be politically, they are brave when their patriotism is touched. If they should resist and a few men be killed on both sides it would be like opening the bag in which Neptune kept the winds"
 Washington, April 29-After several to-day between Secretary :, Gresham and Secretary Herbert the sec retary of the navy sent dispatches to the commanders of the United States gunboats Alert and Atlanta directing ', them to proceed to San Juan del Sur and Greytown, Nicaragua, respective Iy. The Alert is at Panama and 1t will take her about day and a half to reach San Juan del Sur which is the Y cal ble station nearest to Corinto, situat- q ed about one hundred miles below that g port. The Atlanta is at Key West and l can make the distance of 750 miles from II that place to Greytown in two and | half days. When Secretary Herbert was asked f Ehe significance of these orders he an- Q swered promptly as follows: "The newspapers say that a revolu- o ion is probable in Nicaragua. They = state that the people are much dissat- ', sfied with the government and are like v to attempt to overthrow it. Tn order 10 protect the interests of American cit- zens, their lives and property, and fol- owing the policy always pursued in Ii uch contingencies, have ordered the tt Alert to San Juan del Sur and the At- V anta to Greytown. Tn addition to these g ,essels the Montgomery, now at Mobile. cl will sail on May for Greytown, con- IT ewing the Nicaraguan canal commits VI lon to that place. The Monterey. which sl las sailed for Panama, will remain at oanama for the present. With two United States ships on one side of Nic- ragua and one ship on the other side fl, is plain that American interests will ot e well protected if the rumored revo- V, ltion should take place. But I wish it OO understood that these vessels fir re sent to Nicaragua for the purpose re f caring for citizens of the United cc tates and their interests, and not on ny business connected with the .situa- lon at Corinto"
 The Alert is one of the older vessels the navy, an iron cruiser of 1. .02O tons CT
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