The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-03
NICARAGUA OUT OF THE HOLE.
SALVADOR GUARANTEES THE PAY
AIENT or THE S77,5OO.

From COrintO-The Money 10 lie
Paid in London within 10 Days
MIR. Bayard Present mt the Confer
ence.
Washington, May 2-The Nicaraguan in
cident growing out Of British occupation
of CorlntO, was practically and happily
settled to-day seemingly through the good
offices of the Salvadorean minister 20
Great Britain and France, who arrived In
London from Paris this morning and
had an interview with Lord Kimberley,
the British foreign secretary. 1t is un-
derstood that Ambassador Bayard was
present at the meeting, although the
statement of Sir Edward Grey in the
House of Commons to-day that the Unit
ed States had not suggested terms for
an amicable settlement would indicate
that Mr.. Bayard was only present as an
amicus curia. The conference between
Lord Kimberley and Minister Medina,
the minister from Salvador, resulted in
a definite arrangement of terms for the
settlement of the trouble at Corinto, the
substance of which was Immediately ca
bled to Secretary Gresham by Mr.. Bay
ard. In the dispatch Mr.. Bayard said that
Great Britain had accepted the guarantee
made by Salvador of the payment of the
indemnity of $77500 demanded by Great
Britain, the payment to be made by Mica
ragua in London within a fortnight, and
the British agreeing that as soon as
Nicaragua confirmed this promise to pay
and Informed the British admiral in
charge of the naval force at Corinto or
that fact, the admiral would be instruct
ed to withdraw not only the force of ma
rines which, under command of Capt.
French, now hold possession of the GUS
tom and other governments buildings AT
hraN r1ca 1. .4a .tas
from the harbor
The dispatch from Mr. Bayard was re-
celVed at the state department this af-
ternoon by Assistant Secretary Uhl, the
acting Secretary of State in the absence
through sickness of Secretary Gresham.
Inc president, at his country home at
Woodley was promptly telephoned of
the receipt of the intelligence that a set
tiement of the Nicaraguan difficulty was
in prospect, and Immediately drove 10
the white house, where Mr.. Uhl Joined
him with a copy of the dispatch.
Secretary Uhl declined this evening to
discuss the settlement. He would not
say whether or not the result had been
reached through the good offices Of the
United States, nor would he give any in
formation about the matter.
Ihat the government of Salvador had
decided to tender its good offices in the
controversy through Mr.. Medina its
minister to Great Britain and France,
had been previously and exclusively sta
ted in these dispatches Instructions to
this effect We're sent Mr.. Medina yester-
day and he must have hurried at once
from Paris TO Londan, as he arrived at
the English capital this morning. That
Salvador has guaranteed the payment of
the smart money demanded by Great
Britain. as seems to be indicated by Mr..
Bayard's dispatch, is a new and inter-
esting phase of the situation.
The great interest of the people gen
orally in the aspect of the United States
in the Nicaraguan trouble was shown to-
day by the complete exhaustion of the
pamphlet containing extracts from the
nfT .f,,ts,
his famous doctrine. The edition deliver
ed at the department of state yesterday
by the government printing office was
of 25O copies only, but by noon nearly all
of these had been given to persons who
applied personally for them. number
of kilograms and letters were also re-
ceived requesting the pamphlet and in an
ticipatiOn of a greater demand another
and larger edition has been ordered which
will be delivered at the department to-mor-
row.
The war slooD Alert left Panama this
morning for San Juan del Sur, where she
should arrive in about As hours, the dis
tance being 490 nautical miles and the
Alert in her present condition being capa-
BILE of making ten knots an hour. The
Alert is under orders simply TO protect
American interests. She will find at the
same port the British gunboat Wild Swan,
which preceded her several days. The two
vessels were built in 1875, and are remark
ably similar, the Wild Swan being OF 1,130
tons and the Alert's tonnage being 1,020.
Respectively their lengths are 40 feet.
and 175 feet, but the British vessel has $40
horsepower, while the American has but
365. The Alerts battery is largely of OBJ
solete pattern, consisting of two nine inch
and one eleven inch smooth bore guns,
one sixty FOUNDER breech loading rifle,
one three inch breech loading HOwitZer,
one twelve FOUNDER smooth bore Howit-
ger, and one Gatling. The Wild Swans
offensive equipment is thoroughly modern
consisting of two six inch and six five
inch, and two three FOUNDER quick fire
rifles, two machine guns, and one light
landing gun. This battery at each volley
would throw three times the weight of
projectiles that could be fired by the Alert,
the volley would be three times as fire.
quent and the effective range would be
three times as great. 1t is possible that the
Monterey may reach san Juan del Sur
almost at the same time as the Alert. She
is now within 100 miles of the Nicaraguan
coast on her way to Panama The Monte
rev is considered as powerful as the COM
bined British feet in Nicaraguan waters.
London, May 2.-The Central News says
that Lord Kimberley in response to in
quiries at the foreign office this afternoon
in regard to the status of the Nicarasuan
dispute, declined to discuss the purport
of the communication received from Mic
aragua or from other sources concerning
the matter but IL is learned from SEMI
official source that the affair has been set
tied England making some slight conces-
The Salvadorean minister, to whom the
Nicaraguan government has entrusted the
management of it's differences with Great
Britain, had a long interview with Lord
Kimberley at the foreign Office to-day and
subseouently had a short conference with
limited States Ambassador Bayard. Later
n was reported that the dispute was GER
tain TO be amicably arranged.
London. May I'm the House of Com
mons to-day William p. Byrles liberal
member for the Shipley division of York
shire West Riding, in accordance with
nrevious notice, asked the government If
Nicaragua had offered to refer all ques-
fions regarding indemnity for alleged in
iuries TO British subjects, including the
expulsion of the British agent, Mr.. Hatch
10 an arbitration commission. and If So
why the government had declined to ac-
cent the proposal He also asked if the
government of the United States had ten
dered their good offices or suggested terms
of an amicable arrangement of the diff
culty and whether there was a prospect
of such terms being accepted.
Sir Edward Grey, under foreign secre-
tarv. in reply said Nicaragua, on April H. |
sent to the British government proposal
that the trouble be settled by arbitration |
He believed, he added, that when the pa
pers in the case should be laid upon the
table it would be seen that the matter was
not q proper subject for arbitration. The
limited States government had
not rendered their good Of
fees for a settlement of the dispute
Her uaiestys government had reason to !
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