The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-16
American Government Is Not Satisfied With Conditions
 In That County
COMMISSIONER MAY BE
 SENT ID SECURE PEACE
American Secretary of the Legation Has Not Been Treated Right and In Spite of Protests coun-
 try Not Peaceful.

Washington, March -Nicaragua. through her minister here, Senor Espi- noza, protested to Secretary Knox to- day that the military and naval activity now in progress in that country Is destined entirely for defensive pur- poses; that she does not contemplate making any attacks on her sister re- publcs and that conditions are quiet within her borders
 The minister went to the state de- partment armed with a bundle of dis patches from his government and spent half hour with the secretary, during which he discussed also the Emery claim, which has been the source of dispute between the two countries for years.
 Both the secretary and the minister, after the conference, expressed the hone for satisfactory adjustment of the claim and a peaceful solution of tho whole situation.
 Notwithstanding the minister's as- sertion of Niearagua's peaceful inten- tions toward her neighbors, the ad- ministration has decided to augment
 
 waters to a total of six vessels In ad- dition to the Yorktown. now on route for Amapala, Honduras. the. armored cruisers Maryland and Washington are to remain on the west coast the form CT going to Acajutla, Salvador, and the latter to Corinto.
 The most significant news reaching the state department today was that about 5000 Nicaraguan troops were near the frontier in the neigh borhood of Corinto. where are also concentrated four gunboats and other auxiliary craft. A feature distatefuI to tffe state de- partment is the manner in which John H. Gregory, the secretary of the lega- tion at Managua, who has been ordered to Washington. is being trated. From the dispatches it is gathered that the Nicaraguans are doing nothing to make his position agreeable, but that on the contrary there are evidences of hostility 10 him, and 1t Is understood here also that some of his dispatches have not reached him as promptly as they should
 The whole situation Is inexplicable and irritating to the state department which Is not disposed to act hastily and is seeking the views of the various capitals in Central America through it's representatives in those places, whom 1t has acquainted fully with every step that has been taken.
 In the matter of the Emery claim it was pointed out today that the conten- tion of the American government con templated a. decision by arbitration of the whole case with a provision for the determination of whatever damages the company may have suffered, as against the position of Nicaragua, which has adhered to the proposition to arbitrate simply the question as to whether an error had been made in resembling the concessions. It Is believed that Mica ragua will yield to the American view of the case. The state department will no tobject to any compromise that may be reached out of court.
 An impression exists that the state department may find it desirable to dis patch a commissioner to Central Amer ica for the purpose of making a com plete investigation of the situation and endeavor to bring about an under standing between the, conflicting ele- ments with a view of putting to an end, if possible, the danger of future com plica tions. Secretary Knox was asked today as to the probability of former Governor Magoon of Cuba being asked to undertake such a mission, and his evasive reply lends belief to the view that such step is being considered.