Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-06-03
'HE UNITED STATES
\ TAKE CHARGE OF AFFAIRS
IN NICARAGUA.
Gam 70 Assume Control Whether
nsdris Forces Win or N0t-Vote VIII
1omanded-State Department to
.sorce Same Relations That Pre-
vailed at Panama

n,aodeIphia, Pa, May 29.-Marines
r tI,oiacI,ets stationed at the Phila-
Hahio navy yard have orders to report
iP lntv as instructions have been re-
w. from Washington directing the
Nv, Wv 70 sail for Bluefelds, Nicaragua.
l AZ marines will be carried from here
AZ tba boat, but 1000 of the sea sol
~ vii he picked up at Panama. A
~ of 200 sailors will be on board
~. command of Lieutenant Com
u "aor Lumis. A number of tents
ara taken on board, together with
,anob ammunition to supply a small.
rmy = :. naiou- 49,
oarced will not recede from its inten-
m If retaining control of Nicaraguan
[soirs whether the Madriz forces cap
nre BIuefelds or not.
The navy department has continued
foroa of 100 men and machine guns
~, +be Paducah at and near the
4 r.toms bouse at Bluefelds. This force
/ 70 he an international police force,
ID Is to remain indefinitely; in fact
MIL a political condition has been es-
ahrsbed in Nicaragua which will be
.ntirely satisfactory to the secretary of
hate and to the president.
This amounts, in theory and in fact,
an occupation of the soil of Nicara-
ua which has been made necessary, the
sHeials said, by the utter indefensi-
iItv of the acts of both Madriz and
Eelava. Madriz is not recognized as
he president of Nicaragua by the
United States.
The situation at Bluefelds today is
Omplex, but it is entirely soluble by
he safeguards which the state depart
Opnt has thrown around existing and
N possible conditions. If the Estrada
SITS are defeated and are driven back
INTO the city the United States sailors
hin not permit them to be slaughtered
n the streets. If the Madriz forces gain
victory and enter the city they will
be subject, in the first instance, to
whatever police regulations may be es-
abliShed by Commander Gilman, who is
charge of the forces of the Paducah
ind of the Dubuque.
Election to Be Demanded.
A summary of the situation, accord
ing to the few revelations made by the
diplomatic officials on account of the
efficacy of the crisis, is that the United
States will repudiate the presidency OF
Iadriz.
In other words, if the Madriz faction
efeats the Estradaists finally, the
armed forces of the United States will
insist on a popular election. This cleo
iOn as in the case of Panama, where
warning factions were suspected of in
lending to defraud each other, will be
held under federal auspices.
In this way only can the United
States secure the presence in the presi
Dental chair of Nicaraguan as chief
magistrate with whom the United
States can negotiate for an agreement
Of peace protection. Such an agree
nent officials hold, is impossible unless
the United States is given such author
ply as it held in Cuba, where all tn,
phases of Intervention, occupation ant
retention of power for a given tim,
made the Cuban problem and the Sal
DOMINICAN groblem entirely successful.
Officials of the administration VIII
nave charge of the Strengthening of tn
Iilangular tangle in Nicaragua are posi-
1--WE that the state department neve
authorized any person to say for it tina
me Venus had right to sail from New
ofleans, or that the vessel constitute,
Of could constitute a blockade of Blue
fields.