| Show NICARAGUA CANAL 1 government control will be recommended Reco Amended to congress washington aug 4 no matter what the attitude of the greater republic of central america is is the intention of the administration to recommend governmental ern mental control of the nicaraguan cabal when congress in november this was made plain at a conference at the state department participated in by secretaries aden and cridler senator morgan former senator warner miller and mr merry the recently appointed minister to nicaragua salvador and costa rica le garding the complication which have sprung up out of the refusal 0 the government of nicaragua and salvador to receive mr merry it hag been practically decided that mr merry shall go to costa rica and that the headquarters of the legation shall be transferred to that country from nicaragua no steps will be taken to make the transfer however until the governments of nicaragua and salvador shall again have been heard from the administration bali ovea there la no necessity of entering even into a new convention with nicaragua with a view to Be curine authority for the construction of the waterway the program it will follow will be based upon the provisions of the convention now in force as well as the concession which was granted to an american company by the nicaraguan government for the construction st of the canal this concession will not expire for three years acting in accordance with instructions given by the detate department minister baker bakeri i e watching every move of the opponents ot the canal in bigi making reports thereon to the ament so that in case of necessity ces sity prompt action may be taken by the authorizes authorises autho rises the walker commission lias been holding meeting at the department part ment will mak a preliminary report to attebe of the setting forth its estimate should this repart show that the at would not be greater than the president will probably have something to say in his arst annual message in regard to the advisability of the passage of a bill by Con erese guaranteeing the construction of the canal under governmental ern mental control s 11 ll |
