The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-05-03
NICARAGUA ACCEPTS.
The Proposition of Compromise
Is Agreed To,
RIT ENGLAND Is STILL oBDURATE
She Wants the s77.5OO Indemnity Paid
over While the Fleet l. still at C"rint"-
The United states Urging Settlement
a. a Revolution Is Feared

NiCarlguan government has i'i iA''4Af
decided to accede to the compromise
DroDoSition for the settlement OF the
pending trouble, and this decision has
been communicated to the authorities at
Washington and London According
To this proposition Nicaragua agrees u
my S77. 500 in London - days from the
time the British ships leave the harbor
of Corinto. 1t now remains for Great
Britain 70 agree to this condition The
governments course Is regarded as
shifting on Great Britain all further
responsibility for the trouble. The
most positive assurances OF the prompt
payment of the money have been given.
so that there may be no question of
uncertainty on this point.
a Washington special says: AT the
state department the news that NIcara-
qua would pay S37, 300 indemnity with
in 10 days after the departure OF the
British troops was seemingly expected.
though no direct advices had been re
ceived by the department. In fact
Minister Baker is in Costa Rica, and
there is very little communication be
tween this government and the lega-
ton at Managua. 1t was learned at
the department that the acceptance by
Nicaragua of the terms which have
been proposed does not mean that the
affair is settled. 1t is understood that
Ambassador Bayar1 throughout the
controversy, has had to encounter the
difficulty which is still presented. The
British government wants the money
paid i'll the presence of the British fleet
at Corinto, or while the fleet is still there
and the troops are in possession of the
town. The British government, accord
ing TO a state department official, wants
the payment made as though under
duress 1t is hoped, however, that the
offer made at the suggestion of the
United States. and which Managua ad-
vices say have been satisfactory to the
Nicaraguan government, will be agreed
TO by Great Britain. though no assur-
ances TO this effect have been received
Ii appears, in this connection, that the
threat of revolution in Nicaragua has
given the United States an Oppori unity
to urge with more force a peaceable set
tlement of the present difficulty, ,aS such
a result of the British occupation might
seriously threaten the lives and property
of United States citizens. As to the
possible arbitration of the remaining
questions in dispute between Great
Britain and Nicaragua, it is understood
that the United States expects to be rep
resented, and that request by Mica
ragua that the United States be repre-
sented viii not be refused by Great
Britain. This, it Is said, viii not be al
lowed to interfere with the settlement
Of the S77 800 claim by payment within
two weeks as proposed.
Although the state department has
sanctioned the principle of the right of
a European nation TO collect an indem
nifty for a national insult offered to II
by an American nation. or to secure re
dress for the abuse or illtreatmemt of its
citizens and infringements on their
property rights, 1t can safely be pre-
dicted that it will not, under any cir
cumstances, permit any European gov
ernment to attempt. by the display of
force, TO collect monies owing by the
South or Central American states to in
dlvldualS on account OF monies loaned.
In 1881 Secretary Blaine wrote tC
United States Minister Noyes at Paris,
at a time when the French government
was about to undertake a demOnstra-
ton against Venezuela to force that
country 10 meet payments to French
GOnhOlders on account of the national
debt. that the government of the United
States would regard with grave anxiety
any attempt on the part of France tC
force by hostile pressure the paym enr
by Venezuela of her debt TO French
citizens, and this warming stopped it
Therefore. there Is no ground for appre
henSiOn of a forcible attempt by the
OIlll>H 10 tbI4ttI sltblS oN IllS bN I1'H
duras 70 British bOndhOlderS on account
of q government loan.
a London special says: 1t is learned
from official scources thai there has beeI
no change III the attitude of Grea
Britain towards Nicaragua. the British
government having no alternative bu
to insist upon a settlement of its de
mands and not to listen TO any offers o
compromise. The United States. it il
added, Is not intervening in the matter
The report that the British warship
Wild Swan and Satellite have beer
ordered to PaSo de Cabellos and San
Juan Del Sur and that Rear Admira
Stephenson has cabled to London say
ing tl-at COrinto is a useless possession
| Is unfounded.
In regard to the report circulated b,
a newsagency that it Is the intention o
Great Britain to seize ports in Hondura
in order to secure the payment of ar
/ rearS Of interest on long outstandin.
loan, it is pointed out that 1t is con
| trary TO the policy of the British gov
ernr:ent to take such action or to Inter
| fere directly to collect the interest ol
[ loans