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Show VENEZUELA STANDS PAT. ,' H Minister Russell on Revision of Steam ship Company Award, Caracas, Veno.uoln. Tho Veneztte la government has published part ol the correspondence o.xchungod bo tween tho American legation hero ami tho foreign ofllco on tho subject oi H tho American claims against this ro H public. .Minister Hus"si-ll, writing tm H dor dnto of Sep. 20, said: H "In accepting the first Installment H of tho awards of the mixed cotnmls Hj slon, my government lmtsts on a re vision of tho Orinoco Steamship com pnuy nwnrd nnd pending u final sot tlomcnt no money which Venezuela pays will bo considered to bo on nc-count nc-count or applicable to that award." Tho Venezuelan govornmont, In nn swcrlng this note, Sept. 21, made tin-following tin-following stntement: "This govern mont will not accept tho pretension that It shall revise the arliltratU.it nwnrds, thus definitely closing the ills cusslon, Vcnczuoln has no concern regarding tho disposition which the American government makes of the moneys already received, and to bo re-eolved." |