Show venezuelan VENEZUELA 14 commission EVIDENCE IN BOUNDARY DISPUTE NEARLY FINISHED SHED Commissio commissioners nors will now enter upon the work of confide considering ring the evidence and making their report Was washington lAngton aug S during the past month the work ot of the venezuelan boundary commission has entered upon a new stage heretofore the efforts ot of the commissioners have been directed mainly to securing the evidence upon which the final report Is 11 to be based the wot k from now on will largely consist of 0 classifying the motion already obtained th the british government men t it la is presumed lias has put into its two voluminous blue books all the information upon which it relies relics in support of Us its claims the venezuelan government has done the same thing in its three volumes of 0 transcripts from the spanish aich ivel independently of 0 this the commission has been searching on its own account the congressional library in washington and many public and private libraries in various parts of the country have been ransacked for or historical and cartography cal information the archives at the hague have been gone through with cl a thoroughness that thai not even the zeal of 0 rest britain or venezuela has heretofore attempted and ns as a result important documents which the world thought 19 lot t or dest destroyed toyed have been unearthed this walk although not yet terminated Is nearing completion for some come months past sir clement it markham ITar kharn ples president ident of 0 the noyal geographical hod society ety has been in correspondence with the secretary odthe oc the coan erslon and has furril furnished shed valuable information on the subject of the ir it line accompanying it by copies of 0 maps on file tn in the colonial office some of which have never been published Wied while information 18 13 I 1 looked aked blague for from rome from the hague and possibly from roni other places the b bulk u ile ot of the evidence Is in ani and the qu question now Is to determine what that evidence es establishes in order to solve this problem a number ot of preliminary reports are beina prepared amons among those may be mentioned special leports upon the geographical and physical ot of the region in dip dispute reports upon tile the evidence presented by the three hundred or more maps which have been published reports upon the facts or of occupancy and settlement as given by historians and separate reports u upon a the same facts as developed by the documents from dutch and spanish archives ci q upon the arguments men to of the british brili sh anti and venezuelan governments as these appear in the british blu blur book and in the venezuelan brief these are being pr prepared ep art d tor for the ibe most pai palt t by the commiss commissioners boners toners at the their 1 r respective summer homes president arc ildene brewer spent several days this week at the office of the commis slon blon in washington ile he was joined on thursday by sir mallet the secretary arid and the two spent the day in consultation P president r el biewer ewer has gone on to hla his home in vermont and tho the secretary will remain tor for some das in washington |