The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-07-24
TREATY
MAY Be WITHDRAWN
Opponents Charge Wall Street In
terests Have Misled state
Department.

WASHINGTON, July s.atTH6 Nh
earaguan treaty, now pending in a
tentative form in the Senate Commit.
tee on Foreign Relations, may be with,
drawn, according TO a report tonight.
However, no one in authority would
confirm the report.
Charges that the treaty as framed
favors a minority element in Nicara
qua rather than the entire people OF
the Republic and that Wall street in.
terests have ihisled the State Depart.
ment are some Of the reasons assigned
| for the change IN plans. IN
Senator Botah's attack on the treaty
! Monday and his subsequent request to
lay over his resolution demanding a
public airing Of the entire Niearagu.
an matter also are believed in some
quarters to have bearing on the In.
timation that negotiations may be ter.
minated.
Whether Senator Borah, member
of the Committee on Foreign Relations,
has accepted the suggestion Of Senator
.Stone, chairman of the committee, to
Hay whatever facts he has before the
lcommittee, may only be surmised.
| In his colloquy with Senator Borhh
on the floor of me Senate over tho
treaty, Senator Stone, announced that
| there Is no treaty before the commit.
| tee.
"The Secretary of state, on behalf
Of the President, - he said, Is carry.
ing on some negotiations with the gov,
eminent of Nicaragua with q view TO
making a treaty between the two eoun,
tries, bnt no such treaty has been con
sumniated yet
Has Outlined Plan.
"The Secretary of State has outlined
TO the Committee on Foreign Relations
the general plan Of n treaty sentative.
ly agreed upon between the represent.
atiyes of the two governments and
has asked conference. In advance Of
lconcluding any treaty he desires the
Judgment of the membership Of the
Senate as to the wisdom and propriety
Of incorporating certain tentative pro
visions in the proposed convention.
Secretary Bryan refused to comment
ON the charge that his proposed treaty
with Nicaragua would be triumph
for dollar diplomacy; that ii was re-
written from the Knox-Castillo treaty,
(which the Senate once threw out, and
that It is wholly in the interest of the
Wall street bankers favored by the
Taft administration.
j He was asked IL he is now following
the plan proposed By former Secretary
! OF State Knox, which the senate reject
ed in the previous convention. SH
81 have nothing to say at present,
was Mr.. Bryan's only statement.
The treaty proposed by Mr.. Kno,
originally and which Mr.. Bryan is sait
to have redrafted, stipulates that Mica
ragua shall grant the United States |
4 protectorate over the smaller Republic
, IKE that this country now has owe
Cuba. 1888
IL also provides that the Unite,
states shall pay Nicaragua $3,000,0O0,h
! gold in return for which Nicaragui
shall grant this country the control am
| luse Of the interoceanie canal route; ais
that the United States be given ma
val Pacific Ocean base on the Fonsec
/ Bay. 4.
U. s. Wants Canal Route.
/, In state department circles it is sal
! the chief need for the convention is tn
desire Of the United States to acquir
Z the canal route and naval station. q
: A protest against the proposed treat
2 was contained in message from Pre-
2 Iident Melendez Of Salvador, made pull
: lie today by senator Smith Of Mich
I gan, who viii lay it before the foreig
I relations committee.
= "We are informed that the energeti
protest that my government has 81
forth TO the department of stat
Through the legation in Washiugto
maintaining that the proposed Niearai
uan treaty wrongs the rights and into
ests Of Salvador in the Bay of Fonsee
4 has not been brought to the knowledl
n of the senate, . it said.
= I'm that sense we ask the committ'
10 require from the department of sta
the diplomatic correspondence regardif
! said protest, and to take II into 60
|, sideration before deciding on. the ma
: ter.
Resides, we inform that honorab
: committee that our diplomatic age
2 has been instructed TO extend our pr
Q test to, the point that the impairme
y OF the autonomy Of Nicaragua equal
q affects that Of Salvador and nullif
= the Washington conventions.
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