Show Senor Don Louis Corca the MInister from Nicaragua who hats just returned to Washington after an absence of four months says that President Zejaya and his associates are hopeful and confident confi-dent that the Congress of the Unitqd States will pass n bill Indorsing the opening of negotiations with I his Gpy crmnent for a right of way for the proposed Nicaragua canal and that he has been Instructed tofacilitate Jn every ev-ery way the cdopcratlon of the N lca vagua Republic with this povernment in order toforword this gerat work That reads very strangely We had supposed tho right of way was secured We hart supposed further that iC it SUfp0ed CUIhe1 was not secured the Government Nicaragua Nica-ragua would most heartily give It to our country in order 1o have that great ocean way for ships eut 0 through their State I would double the value of their property it would riwkc a mar ketfor all they caflp1odue it would Ti put them in cloc rapport with all the world But It must po kept in mind la i that the average SpanishAmerican not very broadminded lie is very much such a chap to deal with as tho Filipino His a character Is represented exactly by the dress of tho soldier It In n full uniform with the gun longer than the solder but with the soldier barefoot that is that no matter what dress hln mind may appear In when it Is Investigated it Is found to rest on a foundation of unadorned and native I simplicity which it Is comical to see And still It would bo better to make a 1 direct bargain with President Zelaya and his Government and have the contract con-tract sealed even if something had to be paid for it becauFfi that would give I to the United States the right of way which neither Nicaragua nor any other outside power could ever dispute I |