New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-10
0Il7 RENDERED GOOD
OFFICES TO TAFT
infer nf Aid in Settling Trouble
in Nicaragua Not
Accepted.
COURTEOUS REPLY MADE
,osidenf Tutinates That Mexico
Eas Been Misled by MadrlE S
Protest - Situation
Called Deplorable.

----t-,-e+nr J.llE s-Tlaa attitude or the
-, Government toward the Madriz
- T., Niearagua and the light in which
,,--si5ant Taft views Central American
--i-s were made palmer to-day when the
- - -ho correspondence which recently
- between President Diaz and Presi-
- TAFT on the subject became public
~ co--espondenCe passed several weeks
- hs1t further than bare statements
: .be exchange and its purport the State
,,s,s--rent had nothing 10 say about it
-. letters we're printed in Spanish, in
,,,xico CITY. and were translated here to-
day
president Diaz wrote to President Taft.
&C the result Of the circular telegram Mad
= senr 10 Central American governments
r-nreSrinE against the attitude OF the
y----e5 states in Nicaragua
..Tf these facts are exact in all details,
,sis President Diaz after referring 10
ssad-iz-s protest. I permit myself, in the
- friendly spirit TO recommend most
sar,ee-fv 10 YOUR eXcellency that, inspired
orrs more by that high spirit Of justice
v--icl1 has always marked the government
n -re United states Of America. you would
consider those instructions Of which
Ni-sracua complains 10 the end OF per-
,--.5ertiy brief period. TO accomplish that
complete pacification which is offered,
s--,e a DroIonEation Of state OF war in
that country might perhaps harm all Of
central America. If your excellency be
Heves that my good offices may prove Use
IN IN any manner for the pacihcation OF
Nf-sracua. 7 shall be always disposed 10
exercise them.
President Taft in reply sent President
Tisz the -eto-t which Secretary Knox had
sem p Niadriz himself through Consul Oil
-a-es This mas already been published
r addition. The President spoke Of condI-
Mons r. Nicaragua IS depforable. He said:
= esteem vo.Ir excellency's friendly inter-
81 IN me relations OF the United States
with Nicaragua which is at present in
deulo-a bic condition. and the welloeing Of
which as well a. that of the other repub-
les ~ Central America, the government Of
TIE United States and the government Of
Mexico did 50 much 70 promote during the
neriod OF the Washington convention
As your excellency viii have surrnised,
IT, telegram which Dr.. Nadriz ordered sent
n YOU a. well a. the kilograms similar 20
this sent 70 a large number Of other govern
men1s in which the continuation Of the
srr-IzEIe in Ni-aragua is attributed TO the
policy II the United States. has evidently
been transmitted under erroneous inferT1a-
tlor with respect 10 the actual facts and the
PRINCIPLES Of International Law applicable 20
1hs case
As u the statements made in the infJr-
ration I communicate the text Of declar-
anon which she Secretary Of State has Or
sered 70 be delivered 10 Dr.. Madrizs through
The American Consul at Managua, as well
Is 70 the Estrada faction, through the con-
81 al Bluehelds-
Ambassador de Ia sarra's Statement
senior de Ia Barra- Mexican Ambassador
= Washington, was asked to-day for q
statement in regard TO the report that the
United States and Mexico might settle the
Nicsraguan troubles.
The statement reported 10 have been
made by the State Department recently
REGARDING the friendship that inspired the
las conferences between il and the Next
csn government on the situation in Near
aqua said the ambassador. is entirely
true The meetings that I had with Secre-
tar Knox and Assistant Secretary Wilson
were characterized by the best feeling De
tween the TWO governments. and, while
pro-n-tei By such feelings. the Mexican
government does not wish 10 take any
Initiative in the settlement Of tie difficult
tes n Nicaragua Ny government has
shown z disposition TO cooperate a. any
tine with 2 view Of solving the problem
II he American government OF the Near
sE-lan government should ask for that CO.
operation.
Activities q the 8Iadriz government were
reflected in several communications re-
oeived - the State Department today. In
che -7-7nuricarion tbs department was in
formed that the Nadriz faction some time
40 offered z Nicaraguan island 70 Z
European power for . coaling station IN
return for intervention in behalf Of Madriz
and n opposition 70 the United States.
The Offer vas not accepted
Another dispatch told OF an attempt ny
re1~ese--a+ives Of an American firm 20 in
d-.ce the tug z T Chamberlain, at Mobile,
70 carry contrahand Of war TO Madriz
TINS statement vas the outcome OF an in
resignation Of the cargo Of the Chamber
lain following the report that she was be
ing frted out as gunboat for the Maorlz
faction The department says this report
= untrue However the ruraor has reached
The DEPARTMENT that three-masteo
schooner cleared from Mobile several days
ago carrying contra band Of war TO the
Nsd-iz forces.
Mobile JUL s-When he saw the state