The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-06

| using besides his good offices for the
protection of the interests of British
subjects in the absence Of their ma
| tional representative. On the estab-
| llshment of the new government, our
minister was directed to enter into re-
lations herewith.
| General Pando was elected president
| of Bolivia on Oct. %.
our representative has been instruct
ed to use all permissible friendly en-
| deavors to induce the government of
| Bolivia to amend It's marriage laws go
as to give legal status to the nom
Catholic and civil marriages of aliens
within its jurisdiction, and strong
| hopes are entertained that the Bollv-
| ian law in this regard will be brought,
as was that of Peru some years ago,
into harmony with the general prac-
| tice of modern states.
A convention OF eXtradition with
| Brazil, signed May IL, 1897 has been
| ra fed bv the Brazilian legislature.
! During the past summer two national
ships Of the United States have visited
! Brazilian ports on a friendly mission
aad been cordially received. The voy-
age of the Wilmington up the ANA
zon river gave rise to passing mis-
! understanding, owing to confusion in
obtaining permission to visit the in
| terror and make surveys in the general
| interest of navigation, but the incident
| found a ready adjustment in harmo ~
with the close relations of amity which
| this government has always sedulous-
| ly sought to cultivate with the COM
! monwealths of the western continent
The claim growing out of the seizure
Of the American owned newspaper, the
Panama Star and Herald, by the au-
thorities OF Colombia has been settled
after a controversy of several years,
by an agreement asserting al $50, 900
the indemnity to be paid by the CO.
lomban government, in three INSTALL
ments of $4,000 each.
The goodwill of Colombia toward
our country has been testified anew by
the cordial extension of facilities to the
Nicaragua canal commission in their
approaching investigation of the Pan
anna canal and other projected routes
across the Isthmus Of Darien.
Toward the ed of October an insur-
rectionary distul bance developed in the
Colombian republic. This movement
has thus far not attained any decisive
result and is still in progress.
Discussion Of questions raised by the
action of Denmark in imposing restric-
tions on the importation of American
meat has continued without substan-
tlal result in our favor. The neighbor-
ing island republic of Santa Domingo
has lately been the scene of revolution,
following a long period of tranquility.
II began with the killing of President
HeueauX in July last, and eliminated
in the REIMBURSEMENT by the succeed
ing vice sident of the rens of gov
ernment to the insurgents. The first
act of the provisional government was
the calling of a presidential ard con-
stituent election. Juan Isidro Jiminez
having been elected president, was in
augurated on the 14th of November.
Relations have been entered into with
the newly established government.
The experimental association of Mic
araEua, and Honduras and Salvador,
under the title of the great republic of
Central America, when apparently on
the threshold of a complete federal or
ganization by the adoption of a con-
stitution and the formation of a ma
tional legislature, was disrupted in the
last days of November, 1898, by the
Withdrawal Of Salvador Thereupon
Nicaragua and Honduras abandoned
the joint compact, each resuming its
former independent sovereignty This
was followed by the reception of Min
lister Merry by the republics of Mic
Gragua and Salvador. while Minister
Hunter in turn presented his creden-
tialS to the government Of Honduras,
thus reverting to the old distribution
of the diplomatic agencies of the
United States in Central America, for
which our existing statutes provide.
A Nicaraguan envoy has been ac-
credited to the United States.
An insurrectionary movement under
Ge eral Reys broke out at Bluefelds
In February last and for a time exer-
cised actual control in the Mosquito
territory. The Detroit was promptly
sent thither for the protection of Amer
lean interests. After few weeks, the
Reys government renounced the con-
fviN TtRNTr
premacy OF Nicaragua, During the in
terror trouble certain public dues ac-
crulnS under NiCaraguan laws were
collected from American merchants by
the authorities for the time being in
effective administrative control Upon
the titular government regalning power
a second paymelt of these dues was
demanded. Controversy arose touch
ing the validity of the original payment
of the debt to the de facto regent of
the territory. An arrangement was ef-
fected In April last by the United
States minister and the foreign secre-
tary Of Nicaragua, whereby the
amounts of the duplicate payments
were deposited with the British consul,
pending an adjustment of the matter
by direct agreement between the gov
ernments of the United States and Mic
aragua.
The controversy is still unsettled.
The contract of the Maritime Canal
company of Nicaragua was declared
forfeited by the Nicaraguan govern
ment on the tenth of October on the
ground of non-fulfiment within the
ten wears term stipulated in the con-
tract.
The Maritime Canal company has
lodged a protest against this action,
alleging rights in the premises which
appear worthy of consideration. This
government expects that Nicaragua
will afford the protestants a full and
fair hearing upon the merits of the
case.
Tho Nicaragua Canal.
The Nicaragua canal commission
which had been engaged upon the work
of examination and survey for a ship
canal route across NicaraGu having
comnleted its labors and made its re-
port, was dissolved on May 81, and on
June 10 new commission known as
the Isthmian canal commission was
organized under the terms of the act
approved March 3, 1899, for the pur-
pose of examining the American 18TH
mus with a view to determining the
most practicable and feasible route for
a ship canal across that isthmus, with
its probable cost, and other essential
details.
This commission under the presidency
of Rear Admiral John G. Walker,
United States navy, retired, entered
promptly upon the work intrusted to
IL, and is now carrying on examinations
in Nicaragua along the route of the
Panama canal and in Daren from the
Atlantic, in the neighbOrhoo1 of the
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