The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-04-10
Great Brltain'S Ullimatum on
The Bluff ids Trouble.
Satisfaction for Wrong, 10 British
Subjects Frs and DiStu SiOl
o ths Ttsat Liter.

One thing at which the United
States Government has taken mn
bragg, in the ultimstum Of the Bri-
fish Government, is the phrase, mot
a citizen OF any American state" in
the stipulation of a commission to
assess the losses and damages sus-
tanned in the Mosquito reserve
owing to the action of the Nicara-
guam authorities The whole sent
ence ia which the obnoxious phrase
occurs reads as follows: "Such com
mission to be composed OF British
representative, a Nicaraguan repre-
sentative, aud a jurist, not citizen
Of any American ttate, TO DO selected
by agreement between the Nicara-
guam Government and the Govern
ment OF Her Majesty, aud, failing
such agreement, by the President OF
the Swiss Republic, the findings OF
the commission to be by majority
and the awards to be final, aud to
be paid within three months Of the
conclusion OF their labors." Upon
this cause Ut offense Washington
dispatch says:
This phrase was thought to be
an explicit declaration by England
that she declined to recognize any
force in the Monroe doctrine and to
bs q gratuitous reflection upon the
United States. The intention to
cast any reflection upon the United
States was promptly disavowed by
Lord Kimberley, through on. OF his
Under Secret aries, and IL is said that
the meaning OF that unfortunate
sentence aud the intentions of the
British Government have been mis-
construed. Az ordinarily employed
aud understood by the British For
eign Office, the phrase American
State is limited in application to
the smaller republics Of Central and
South America. 1t was these re-
publics which Great Britain desired
to exclude from having a casting
vote"
In view Of the news already given,
aud what may be expected by sue
ceeding mails, the following con-
densed abstract OF tho ultimarum OF
Lord Kimberley. Secretary OF the
British Foreign Office, will be i'm
portant to readers. 1t is addressed
to Senior Don Modesto Barrios, Min
lister OF Nicaragua, and opens by
say ing that Her Majesty's Govern
ment had carefully considered the
voluminous documents inclosed in
his note OF November ~, communi-
Gated in justification OF the proceed
ingS OF the Nicaragua Government
in regard to Mr.. Hatch, British pro-
Consul, and certain other British
subjects who were arrested IN August
last in the Mosquito reserve, i'm
pris0ned and expelled from Nicara-
qua not only without any form of
trial, but without any communica-
ton to them OF charges against
them, SO as TO afford them opportu.
nifty Of absolving themselves.
Before proceeding 10 examine the
statements in the documents, Lord
Kimberley Observes that although
Mr.. Hatch was not, seriously speak
ing, an officer in Her Msjesty's con-
sular service, yet, when the Nicara-
qua authorities treated him as such
so long as it suited their conven-
ieuce, they mlBnt 6S matter OF
ordinary courtesy have communicate
cd with Her Majesty's Government
before resorting to so extreme a
measure as the arrest of that gentle
man. A list Of eleven British sub
jacts who were arrested besides Mr..
Hatch, also OF four said to bs British
subjects, is given by Lord Kimber-
Icy. The object OF much that is
contained in the papers communi-
Gated by the Nicaragua Government
appeared to be- to connect the Brit
ish subjects arrested with the dis
turbance that took place in the Mos
quito reserve in July last. Nine of
them including Mr.. Hatch had made
a sworn statement that they did not
in any way, directly or indirectly,
participate ia or encourage riots in
the reserve. Another, who was in
prison three days and was released
on the intervention OF the captain
OF the United States ship Marble
head, was in ignorance of the cause
Of his arrest and exile. On the
other hand the testimony brought
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