Show THE POPE MAY BE THE ARBITRATOR A SemiOfficial Proposal Made lo President Cleveland THROUGH MGR SATOLLI WhEN VENEZUELA PROPOSED BEFORE BE-FORE THE POPE WAS REFUSED Balfoiir Does Not Give Encouragement Encourage-ment to Diplomatic Amateurs Who Are Tr inG to Get Americans Ameri-cans to Believe They Are Wrong and Will Eud By Knuckling Down Another Expedition Has Left For British Guinea LONDON Jan 16The Rome correspondent corre-spondent of the Chronicle says The pope through Cardinal Satolli has made a semiofficial proposal to President Cleveland to arbitrate the Venezuela question The pope was much hurt by Eng lands refusal last year when Venezuela Venezue-la proposed the pope as an arbitrator I is believed that his holiness has now instructed Cardinal Vaughan < to sound the British government on the subject BALFOUR TALKS AGAIN Mr Balfour does not give encouragement encourage-ment to the diplomatic amateurs who are trying to get the Americans to believe be-lieve that they are wrong and will end by knuckling down Thos who have been led to believe that the Marquis of Salisbury intends to apply to Washington Wash-ington asking it to be good enough to arbitrate or conciliate are much mistaken and we sincerely hope they have not been aMe to lead American opinion to share their error otherwise the results maybe may-be calamitous There is an Increasing disposition both in London and Washington Wash-ington to believe that the dispute cane can-e arranged by negotiations between the only genuine parties thfreto vie t Britain and Venezuela We have no Quarrel with the old Monroeism but if the senate insists upon setting anew a-new Monroeism which will render the United States absolute arbitrator of the affairs of the continent of which onethird belongs to Great Britain we certainly cannot avert the come quendes by yielding The Issue peace or war lies with the Americans Nobody No-body In England has discovered a patent method to escape the danger of a conflict unless the Americans themselves them-selves are anxious and willing to avert i The Globe takes the same view of the arbitration propositions and asks How could a court be constituted whose decisions would be to sure command com-mand equal respect from both sides To this day the Americans have not carried out the Bering sea award and the arbitrators have no means of enforcing en-forcing it Another Expedition Left NEW YORK Jan 17A special to the World from Caracas says Another expedition with two cannon is reported to have left Georgetown British Guiana for Cuyauni station on the Guiana frontier I Is said to be commanded by Colonel Nicinnis A cable dispatch from Trinidad says the second force is to go to the extreme limit of the English claim though the colonial office at London denies that I the force Is going there The newspapers news-papers continue urging energetic acton ac-ton by the government and the building build-ing of telegraph lines to the frontier The announcement that England declined de-clined to accept the pope as an arbitrator arbi-trator because the Vatican possesses documents to prove that Venezuela is right has caused a sensation A special meeting of the cabinet has been held to decide upon some vigorous method of punishing revolutionists The newspapers publish a letter from General Jose Manuel Hernandez a revolutionary chief and a bitter enemy of Crespo offering to return to Venezuela Vene-zuela to take a position in the army owing to the gravity of the situation i The president answers in a public I letter thanking him for the patriotic offer and accepting it I The that the I rumor government Is i buying war supplies In Germany I causes dissatisfaction and much talk The people say it is unfair to the United States In the present crisis and I I the orders should be placed with I American companies I HGI LIE NEW YORK Jan 16A Washington Washing-ton dispatch to the World says The engagement is announced of Miss Catherine eighth daughter of Chief I Justice Fuller of the United States I court to Mr Beecher supreme Befcher of i Buffalo cousin of the late Henry Ward Beechar The date of marriage is set I for September 17 |