The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-29
AIMED AT UNITED STATES.
THAT IS THE OPINION REGARDING
 ENGLAND'S UERTHATUM.

AHront to the United States and as a Di- rect Assault Upon the Monroe Doctrine
 and Alao as a Menace to the Canal. Washington, March 28.--The full text
 of Great Britain's uftimatum to Nica-
 ragua as published this morning was
 read with intense interest by such sen- | ators and representatives as are espe- | cially familiar witch foreign affairs and who still remadn in this city. The pre- vailing tone of all the comments made
 was one of Indignation and resentment.
 It was asserted that the uItanatum. 1 though nominally addressed to NioaraO-
 la, was evidently intended for every American states and most dapectly for the United States. No mere technicar
 denials of an intended affront to the
 United States by the clause excluding
 any American state from the arbitra.
 tton committee. it was claimed, could
 stand i'm view of the language of tha demand itself. That stipulation was
 construed as a studied threat to this
 government; a direct assault upon the
 doctrine of President Monroe and a
 menace to the construction of the Me-
 aragua caal. The injuries oompIained
 of by Great Britain, it was pointed out.
 occurred, if at all, before the withdraw-
 al of Great Britain from any further In-
 reference in the matter of the Mos-
 quito territory affair, when she tlrtaw
 the Mosquito chief on the tender mer-
 cies of Nicaragua and repudiated anv
 attempt to exercise suzerainty over than
 territory
 If the government said one senator.
 ever had any claim against the Mic
 aragua people for damage of this sort
 that claim should have been brought
 forward at the time this question was
 settled by MT Bayard through the ne-
 gotiations pursued under the adminis-
 tration of Secretary Gresham It is clear to me that reattBritain only sur- rendered her claim in this matter be- cause she imagined she saw a better opportunity to grasp partial control Of the Pacific by her proposed caIle between Vancouver and Australia via the Hawaiian Islands by the occupa- ton of Neckar leland.
 In this, however, the consent of the United States was not obtained ana England was baked.
 Now Egland comes back llpon Nic- aragua to secure a lodgenent that will give her al footlold in the Pacific Her claim is clearly one that cannot be en- dorsed by the United States, still less her proposed method of enforcing, it. Should England send a warship to Grey town for the purpose of collecting the revenues of the Nicara g'1an govern ment. i'm liquidation of the S75,0O0 fine assessed against that republic and the United States were to acquiesce i'm this procedure, it would be within the power of England to so arrange mat ters as to prohibit the trade and com merce of the United States from enter- ing that country entirely, and what is of vastly more importance, to practical ly stop all operations with regard to the canal"
 One fear prominently expressed to- day was that the administration in the that this matter is bound to bring about might be plead the Clayton Bulwer treaty estoppel against the claims of Great Britain, who ex. pressed this fear asserted that Great Britain had violated this treaty and that when the time arrived so to do the United States would be justified i'm it altogether.
 This treaty, it was said, was a vir- tual abolition of the Monroe doctrine so far as it related to that territory. The hope was expressed that vigorous steps would be taken to preserve the rights of Americans in Nicaragua in- dependent of that treaty. A remedy 1t was suggested was at hand which would render it impossible for England to carry out it's present assumed policy without the commission of aniovert act to this country. The last congress passed an appropriation of S20, GOO for survey of the Nicaraguan canal. The survey was authorized under treaty provisions with the Nica- government.
 If Great Britain attempted to oc- ,upy any of the ports of Nicaragua to collect its fine Greytown, which cen- .rols the mouth of the San Juan riveFy would probably be the ort selected. The canal company holds a concession rom the Nicaraguan government giv- ng 1t absolute control of the conn nerce from the San Juangriver and any lttempt on the pant of Great Britain o collect the revenues of that port would interfere with the revenues of his Ameican company. It was pro- ,osed, therefore, tha thte administra- ion should at once send the engi- eeFS duCuOIlAluS COuSf0SS to NlCdId8UB or the purpose of making this sur- -ey; that these engineers should be con- eyed to Greytown on a United States and that hte vessel should emain at the mouth of the river. tome of the propositions to this effect, is understood, wer subsequently made " officers of the canal company, who ne the president andsome of his cabi. atf advisors today