New-York tribune., 1910-07-24
PROTEST FROM MADR|z
Nicaragua Objects to Action of
u. S. in BIuefields Matter.
INsURRECTION NEAR END
President of Republic Not in
Sympathy with Zelaya-
Battle with Insurgents.

bdbLle WIN insurgents.
Washington. July 23-Protest against the
action of the State Department Of the
United States in refusing to recognize as
binding under international law the order
of DR.. Madriz. provisional President Of
Nicaragua, declaring Rluefields a closed
port and in refusing further to take seri-
ously Norway's recognition of this order
was made to-day by Cory NJ Stadden
counsel here for the titular government ii
Nicaragua.
Report was received by Mr. Stadden from
Madriz of the routing at Cotalopa, after
nine hours of fighting. OF five hundred in
surgents and of the capture of many pris-
oners.
Mr.. Stadden's statement, issued to-day.
concludes with the observation that 'if the
State Department will diligently observe
international obligations due to a friendly
state the instruction soon will be sup
pressed with due care for the preserva-
ton OF American lives and property" The
statement in part says:
King Haakon having recognized Presi-
dent Madriz as the de jure as well as de
facto government of Nicaragua, as all other
powers, with the exception of the United
States, having diplomatic relations with
Nicaragua have done, it was emlnenuy
proper for him to recognize the decree clos
ing the port of Rluefelds. This action was
based upon a formal protest that vessels
flying the Norwegian flag had committed
hostile acts toward a friendly government
thereby incurring liability to seizure.
It should be beneath the dignity OF the
State Department to quibble over the CHAR
acter of the gunboat Venus, which was
publicly purchased in the United states Ior
the titular government of Nicaragua. II
she is operating unlawfully she may pc
r,jr 4 "a
seized it must be presumed that she Is
operating entirely within the law and she
should not have been driven away from
Bluefelds by the American commander:
All the official acts of President Madrlz
since he assumed office in December nave
stamped the lie upon the evil reports lssu.
ing from inSurgenC sources that ne IS not
sympathetic toward the United States and
American interests in Nicaragua
President Madriz has neither sympathy
for nor affiliation with former President
Zelaya. Until he was elected President by
the Nicaraguan Congress, last December
he had been absent from that repunne Tor
cessful insurrection which he and Baca
had waged to overthrow Zelaya- He was
not Zelayas choice for the Presidency, but
All Of the prominent men of the Liberal
party. including General Estrada ana MS
hrothers have been identified with Zelaya,
and If would be almost an inpossibility to
find Cabinet material, even in the lnsurgent
ranks, which at one time or anotheT since
1894 was not used by the dictator. The m
surrectlon was begun to oUst Zelaya- IN
this it has been erainently successful 1t
has now dwindled to little more tnan per
cent of the population, and II the State De
partment will diligently observe lnterna-
tional obligations due to friendly state II
will soon be suppressed, with due care fo5
the preservation of American lives ana
property.
Protest against the murder by the reVo-
lutionists of Chichow, a Chinese merchant
at San Pedro del Norte. has been made by
the Chinese residents of Nicaragua to the
representative here OF their, government
Chong Sing, who was Chichows business
partner, announced the murder in a letter
to a friend in this country and has filed an
individual protest He says the muroer
was committed by Agabito Gonzales, a cap
tain of the revolutionists, and that the lat
fer claims all his stores at San Pedro del
Norte.
The cruiser Tacoma. recently ordered to
Cape Gracias a Dios, on the east coast Oh
Nicaragua, where American interests We're
reported to have been threatened, has con-
tinued on to Prinzapulco. several miles
north Of the cape and near Pearl Lagoon
one of the strongholds Of the Madriz troops
and navy.
No report of any kind concerning condi-
Davis. her commanding officer. Grave fears
had been expressed for the safety OF
United States Consul Edwin w Trimmer
a. Cape Gracias a Dios. Commander Da-
Wis would have reported TO the department
had marines been landed, it is said. Inc
absence of any word here is taken to lndl-
cate 4 more tranquil situation than was re-
ported
New Orleans, July 23.-Trade between
American ports and Bluefelds, Nicaragua,
is to be resumed as a result of the action
of the American State Department IN de-
claring Bluefelds an open port 1t was an
Dounced tonight that the steamer Dictator
would sail tomorrow morning. The I'M
perator cleared to-day for Bluefields via
Cape Gracias with a miscellaneous cargo
Following the receipt to-day of the state
ment given out by the Foreign ONCE at
Christiania. Norway, local steamship
agents received cable messages from Nor
wegian owners agreeing to permit the SAIL
ing to BIuefelds of steamers which have
been tied up here since Norway declared
its recognition of the so-called blockade
Of the Madriz government against the port
and principal stronghold of the Nicaraguan
insurgents. The only ships which nave
heen available for Bluefelds have peen OF
Norwegian register.