Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — GIVES FULL AUTHORITY. [ARTICLE]

GIVES FULL AUTHORITY.

More Feature* of the Protocol with Nicaragua Disclosed. Washington dispatch: Some of the main features of the protocbl between the United States and Nicaragua referred to in President Zelaya's message to his congress have been made known in recent press dispatches from Managua. But there are many other important features which have not yet been disclosed, one of these being the complete American jurisdiction and the establishment of American courts, civil and criminal, throughout a zohe six miles wide and extending from ocean to ocean, and including the proposed terminal, Greytown on the Atlantic and Brito On the Pacific The entire policing of this large tract also is placed in the hands of the United States, so that it has the power to preserve order and after that to issue judicial process extending throughout this Besides the authority of American courts and of , the American police on the six mile zone, the chief features of the protocol are in giving an American guaranty that the independence, sovereignty and integrity of Nicaragua shall not be disturbed by the rights thus conferred upon the United States.