The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-06

e Our representative has been instruct ed to use all permissible friendly en
 deavors to induce the government oi , Bolivia to amend it's marriage laws SC , as to give legal status to the non. ; Catholic and civil marriages of alieny } within It's jurisdiction, and strong hopes
 are entertained that the Bolivian law
 in this regard will be brought, as was that of Peru some years ago, into har- mony with the general practice of mod
 ern states.
 A convention of -xtradition with
 Brazil, signed May IA, 1897, has been
 ratified by the Brazilian Legislature.
 During the past summer two national
 ships of the United states have visited
 Brazilian ports on friendly mission
 and been cordially received. The voyage
 of the Wilmington up the Amazon river
 gave rise to a passing misunderstand- ing owing to confusion in obtaining permission to visit the interior and
 make surveys in the general interest of
 navigation, but the incident found a | ready adjustment in harmony with Che
 close relations of amity which this gov
 ernment has always sedulously sought
 to cultivate with the commonwealths of | the western continent.
 The cloim growing out of the seizure
 of the American- owned newspaper The | Panama Star and Herald by the au-
 thorities of Columbia, has been settled
 after controversy of several years, by
 an agreement assessing at $S0,000 the
 indemnity to be paid by the Columbian | government, in three instalments of | $10 900 each. 1 The good will of Columbia toward our country has been testified anew by the
 cordial extension of facilities to the
 Nicaraguan Canal Commission in their
 approaching investigation of the Pan
 anna Canal and other projected routes
 across the 1sthmus of Darien.
 Toward the end of October an insur. rectionary disturbance developed in the Colombian republic This movement has thus far not attained any decisive
 result and is still in progress.
 Discussion of the questions raised by
 the action of Denmark in imposing re-
 strictions on the importation of Amerl-
 can meats has continued without sllb-
 stantial result in our favor.
 The neighboring island republic of Santo Domingo, has lately been the scene of revolution, following long period of tranquility. It began with the killing of President Heureaux in July last and culminated in the relin uuishment by the succeeding vice-pre- sident of the reins of'the government to the insurgents. The first act of the provisional government was the calling of a presidential and constituent elec- tion. Juan 1sidro Jimenez, having been elected president, was inaugurated on the 14th of November Relations have | been entered into with the newly es- | tablished government.
 The experimental association of Nic aragua, Honduras and Salvador, under the title of the Greater Republic of Central America, when apparently on the threshold of a complete federal organization by the adoption of con- stitution and the formation of na 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 it's former independent sovereignty. This was followed by the reception of Min iSttI MciIy ny lIiG ICpuOiIC LII lNiCdi qua and Salvador, while Minister Hun ter in turn presented his credentials to the government of Honduras, thus re- verting to the old distribution of the agencies of the United States in Central America, for which our existing statues provide. A Near aguan envoy has been Accredited to the United States. t It
 An insurrectionary movement under , General Reyes, broke out at Bluefields in February last and for a time exer- ,ised actual control in the Mosquito , territory. The Detroit was promptly sent thither for the protection of Amer can interests. After few weeks the , Reyes government renounced the con- 1ct, giving place to the restored su T oremacy of Nicaragua. During the : nterregnum certain public dues ac- :, ,ruing under Nicaraguan law were col / ected from American merchants by he authorities for the time being in c ,ffective administration. Upon the tit S liar government regaining power a 7 econd payment of these dues was de- handed. Controversy arose touching he validity of the original payment of he debt to the de facto regent of the - erritory. An arrangement was affect d in April last by the United States o minister and the foreign secretary of Nicaragua whereby the amounts of the a uplicate payments were deposited :. ,ith the British consul pending an ad- ustment of the matter by direct agree nent between the governments of the t Inited States and Nicaragua. The d ontroversy Is still unsettled. u The contract of the Maritime Canal II Company of Nicaragua was declared p orfeited by the Nicaraguan govern T lent on the 10th of October, on the il round of -fulfillment within the u en years stipulated in the contract. V he Maritime Canal Company has u 'dged a protest against this action, all A 'ging rights in the premises which ap- 1T ear worthy of consideration. This O. overnment expects that Nicaragua n i'll afford the protestants a full and e air hearing upon the merits of the ase. li The Nicaragua canal commission, fl hich had been engaged upon the work b examination and survey for ship d. anal route across Nicaragua, having al )mpleted it's labors and made it's re- al ort, was dissolved on May 31, and on la mo m a new commission known a c fl,