Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1909 — CASE OF ZELAYA BEFORE CABINET [ARTICLE]

CASE OF ZELAYA BEFORE CABINET

Knox Has In Mind Safely of Americans In Nicaragua. DIPLOMAT IS TREATED COLDLY Representative of Central American President Who Permitted Summary Execution of Two Yankees Cools His Heels In State Department Building and Leaves on Learning That the Cl "cial He Wanted to See la Busy.

VZf.-’iii'.?ton, Nov. 23.—Senor Felipe RwlrlzuiWashington representative of Prvsid i’s Zelaya of Nicaragua, has learned : he isn’t as welcome at the state c' i” ~ inent as before the present dip’omati" crisis between his country aud th, United States. There was no studied attempt to snub the diplomatic visitor, but he was kept waiting in the diplomatic room until he tired and left Senor Rodrigues made no attempt to call on either Secretary Knox or Assistant Secretary Wilson. He arrived at the department shortly after noon and informed a messenger that he wished to see Second Assistant Secretary Adee. He was ushered into the diplomatic reception room where he waited for about twenty minutes. Finally he asked one of the department messengers if Adee was busy. The reply was that the assistant secretary was busy at the moment. Senor Rodrlguez did not wait longer and departed hastily. He declined to discuss the trouble. It is probable that the Nicaraguan crisis will be the principal topic of dis cusslon at the cabinet meeting today. It will be the first cabinet session since the situation developed. Secretary Knox will at once take steps to protect the lives and properly of American citizens In Nicaragua, ft Is likely that his plan to punish Zelaya contemplates an apology and an Indemnity for the summary execution of the two Americans, Cannon and Groce, who were executed after having confessed that they planted mines to blow up Zelaya’s troopships.