Show INSOLENT REPLY OF CASTRO HIS NOTE COUCHED IN QUITE VIGOROUS LANGUAGE secretary taft decide not to send it to president but to take it under confide consideration artion H himself I 1 myself while the tb officials in washington decline to make public at tig this stage the text of president castros reply to minister lill nister s arbitration proposal it may be stated that there was nothing pers personal crial to the american minister in president castros Ca stroe statement so that mat it if it should be eventually held to bo be undiplomatic and even rude then the injury wll wil be sustained by the state department rather than by the minister and therefore it la Is tho the former cormer alone alon e that will be concerned this la Is particularly true 0 of an inquiry from the iba venezuelan government as to bother the united states presumed to question the integrity ol of the venezuelan courts the inquiry boing couched in rather vigorous language it also appears that there Is an expressed disposition on the part ot of the venezuelan government to localize the issues by concentrating attention upon the olcott case which W was the subject of an arbitration in 1903 thus evading the attempt on the part ot of the state elate department to rest its case principally on the asphalt controversy As a matter ot of tact fact the state depart ment has never been particularly strenuous in its efforts to force a settlement immediately on tho the olcott case or any other minor pending claims being willing to allow all ot of these to bo be adjusted at some future date through the usual agency ot of an international mixed commission but it has pressed the asphalt case principally because the venezuelan government in that matter may establish a precedent that will invalidate deverr foreign concession the text of 0 president castros reply to minister bowen Is now before S secretary ec tatt taft who has determined 11 not 0 t to send it to the president but to ta take ko it under consideration himself it Is laid bald that the communication fills the description conveyed by minister bowen in his cablegram as to form ot of expression chich he declared to ha be insolent |