The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-09-03
AMBITIOUS. JAPS
Their Latest Scheme Said to Be
the Construction Of the Mic
aragua Canal.
Trying Secretly to Have the
Treaties Now in Force
Abrogated.
To the End That Another May
Be Negotiated Giving Them
the Concessions.


I Washington says: Japan, not content
-, with interference with President Nc
1inley's Hawaiian annexation policy,
! oaon nsow has designs upon the Nicaraguan
am'it|.sanal. According to semi.official ad.
( vices just received here from Nicaragua,
the japanese government is secretly
negotiating with the diet of the Greater
Republic Of Central America, which
? recently met in Salvador, for the con-
{ struction of the Nicaraguan canal, in.
. dependent and in defiance of the inter-
! ests and influence of the United States
or other nations.
I This action Of Japan, taken in con.
tenlAction with her recent attitude in re-
yard to Hawaiian annexation, is OF the
greatest significance, showing, as it
does, to the authorities that there is no
limit to the ambition of the nation, and
her aggressive policy may yet get her
in trouble with the United States That
the administration will resent any in.
reference with the Nicaraguan canal
project, as it did in the case of the Ha.
waiiap annexation treaty, goes without
saying.
England May BE in the Deal.
II Japan can encompass it, according
to the Nicaragua advices received here,
she would like to obtain the abrogation
Hof all treaty rights possessed by the
!. UNITED States, in relation to interoceanic
transit, and the forfeiture of the Amer
! lean canal concession from Nicaragua,
and to Immediately make Il treaty with
the diet of the Greater Republic of Gen.
tral America, giving her control Of the
| Tn tGo
negotiations Costa Rica has not been
consulted, it being we'll known that she
would not assent to a violation OF q
treaty right.
1t has been suspected in some quarters
that England, which has always been
anxious to acquire at least joint con-
troll of the canal, might be working in
collusion with Japan in the ''dickering'
/ with the diet, now understood to be in
\ progress, but nothing has yet come to
I the surface to indicate that she has ell.
la ragged Japan in the move.
,e t is said that the agent of the Mic
az guam canal here has laid the facts
4. ore Mr.. Hitchcock, the president OF
canal company, in New York, with
Y suggestion that the state depart
"a 1t be apprised OF the secret negotia
led that are now being carried on be-
4 en- Japan and the diet. Senol
ldl va, the president of Nicaragua, it il
"a erstood, has admitted to close per
~ friends that Japan is negotiating
HT the diet, but in each case he ad
fVase,l the strictest secresy.
y A Private Letter From Nicaragua.
IA A private letter just received in thil
city from Nicaragua says:
"Among Americans in Central Amer
\ YEA the beliefs general that the Create
- Republic of Central America, which
represented in it's diplomatic affairs b
diet composed of three members
each from Nicaragua, Salvador
Honduras) was organized principal
order that Nicaragua might ab
herself from individual responsi
as nation, and thereby abroga
interoceanic transit treaty wit
United States.
1.-The so called Greater Repq
senting the failure of the Unit
to recognize the Greater Rer
receiving Senor Rodriguez a
and it's failure to accredi1
States minister to the Great
is likely to try and make q
Japan granting her conces
construction of the canal.
1.-THE United States mi b
\ lieves that when thia kchl
M Washington, the state, / wi
send q note to Japan. she
seeking to interfere treat
rights in the premi lnerica1
in Nicaragua BELIEF b Unite
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