The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-19

Another Controversy with Great
Britain Now Imminent.
A HARSH DEMAND ON NICARAGUA.


That Republic Must Pay $4,000 Indem-
nifty for the Expulsion of Mr. Hatoh-Al-
lianca Negotiations Proceeding Slowly.
Colorado Lynching Controversy Settled.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 19.-The
British government, through its minister
here has submitted an ultimatum to Mic
aragua 1t demands a cash indemnity of
els, 600 to pay for the expulsion of Mr..
Hatch, British consular agent at Blue
fields, during the troubles there last year,
and also the appointment of a commission
to adjudicate the damages sustained by
the persons and property of the British
subjects who were expelled from the Mos
quito reservation about the same time.
BY the terms of the ultimatum Great
Britain is to name one Of the commission
ers and Nicaragua another, and these two
are to name third, who shall not be
citizen of the United States A 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.
WASHINGTON, March 19-It is impossi-
BILE to learn positively whether the state
department has been fully advised offic-
tally of the severe demands made upon
Nicaragua 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 en-
deavor to settle their differences with
Great Britain, has been in Washington
for week it is assumed that our own
government is fully posted.
1t cannot be denied that this new Incl
dent, taken in connection with the hostile
attitude of Great Britain towards our sis
ter republic of Venezuela, promises to lead
TO trouble of a character much more seri-
GUS than the little incident of the Alliance,
which has caused such a cOmmOtiOn. The
administration is evidently about to be put
in a position where it must lay down a
new construction of the Monroe doctrine
or else abandon all concern in the future
of the smaller republics of Central and
South America.
In Venezuela it is alleged that the Brit
ish are steadily extending their boundary
line and encroaching upon Venezuelan
territory in spite of the strong protests of
the Venezuelan government and the re
peated urging of the United States that
the question of boundary should be set
tied by a resort to arbitration. There 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 these claims are being pressed
by concerted action. Many of the claims
for indemnity grow out of the failure of
these republics to meet their obligations
to foreign debtors under the stress Of hard
times and the influence of the world wide
depression in trade AS the European gov
ernments appear to be moving to collect
these individual debts on +heir own ac-
count, it is question that the United
States must speedily settle as to how far
it is prepared to permit this to go on.
AS TO Nicaragua, it is felt here that the
terms of the British ultimatum are unduly
severed. Besides there is rather disagree
able reflection upon American citizens in
the stipulation that none such shall serve
on the commission to adjudge the dam
ages. On the whole it is more than prob
able that the president will feel called upon
to interpose to secure at least an ameliora-
tion of the terms of the ultimatum, by an
appeal to the British government, repre-
senting the great hardship that it would
work to Nicaragua under her present de-
pressed condition of her finances to pre-
fer demand for so large an indemnity.