Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-02
OPPOSITION is
FOUND TO
TREATY
FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE or
SENATE DOES NOT WANT PRO.
TECTORATE OVER NICARAGUA so
TREATY WILL HAVE TO Be RE.
DRAFTED.
WILL Be LIMITED TO
CANAL and NAVAL BASE

Washington, d. C. Aug. 2,-The
proposed protectorate for Nicaragua
embraced in a treaty suggested by
Secretary Bryan, probably will be
abandoned because of adverse action
by the senate foreign relations com
mittee. Chairman Bacon was today
instructed to ask Secretary Bryan to
transmit a new Nicaraguan treaty
limited strictly to the $3,000,00O pur-
chase of the canal route and naval
base concessions.
The fight against the proposal be-
came so pronounced in the committee
today that it was decided it would be
impracticable to attempt settlement
of the policy at the present time. 1t
was decided to ask Secretary Bryan
to withdraw the protectorate features
and limit the Nicaraguan treaty to
those it originally embraced.
limitations had been made by Dem
ocrats on the committee that the pres
ident and Secretary Bryan would be
willing to lay the proteetorate policy
aside temporarily, and it is expected
that completed new draft of the
treaty will be ready within few days,
without the provision giving the Unit
ed States control over Nicaragua's S
future.
Chairman Bacon was instructed to
ask Secretary Bryan to submit treaty
limited to the following provisions
The grant by Nicaragua to the United
States of a perpetual and exclusive
right to build a canal across Mic
aragua:
A ninety-nine year lease on a naval
base site on Fonesca bay and ninety
year lease on Corn Island in the Carri-
bean sea.
The payment by the United States
to Nicaragua of $3,0O0.00O in return
for these concessions.
These terms are practically iden-
tical with those of the treaty as or.
iginally Proposed by Secretary Bryan
before he decided to add the amend
ment by which an American protecto,
rate would have been established. The
senate committee did not definitely
settle the question of future protec-
torates in Central America, however.
1t is understood the administration is.
willing to withdraw the suggestion for
the present in order to secure an early
ratification of the Nicaraguan compact.
Strong opposition was led in the
committee today by Senators Borah,
Clark of Arkansas, Williams and
others who were opposed to an3 action
by the United States toward the OK
elcise of sovereign authority in the
central American countries.
Other senators of the committee de-
Tended the policy with equal vigor
A vote was proposed to settle the
question, but some senators Of the
committee refused to register a final
decision at the present time and the
proposal for a vote was withdrawn.
Opponents of the proposed protecto-
rate had made it clear that it would
be impossible to secure ratification
of the Nicaraguan treaty in the pres.
ent congress if the so-called Platt
amendment were included in it. This
sentiment is understood to have in
duced Secretary Bryan to consent to
its withdrawal.
Castro Worries State Department.
Washington, D. c., Aug. z.-The
sudden and unexpected appearance in
Venezuela of General Cipriano Castro
to take personal command of the rev.
O utionary forces confronts the state
department with grave problenf
Secretary Bryan declined today to say
what would be the attitude of the
United States toward the presence OF
the unwelcome exile in the land from
which he was banished five years ago
The Taft administration not only
approved of Castro's exile from Vene-
zuela, but sought by every means, al
though without success, to prevent
him from landing in this country last
" inter- Officials realize that Castros
, Lrsonal direction of the insurrection
will make the movement far more
formidable.
The cruiser Des Moines will leave
Brunswick, Ga, Monday for La
Guerra, expecting to reach that port
Friday. Henry F. Tenant, of the
state department, who is going to
Caracas to take charge of the legation
pending the appointment of a new
minister, will leave Washington to.
tight and will proceed to Venezuela
on the Des Moines.
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