Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — TREATY WITH NICARAGUA. [ARTICLE]

TREATY WITH NICARAGUA.

United States Assumes Virtual Protectorate Over the Country* Managua, Nicaragua, dispatch: By the protocal signed by Minister Merry for the United States and Dr. Sanchez. Nicaraguan Secretary of Foreign Affairs, the United States assumes a virtual protectorate over Nicaragua. Nicaragua will have full soverignty over the canal route, but the United States will have control over it, can maintain a permanent police villgance and can land troops when it is necessary. In return the United States guaranteed the soverign integrity and independence of Nicaragua.