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Show IRESUME RELATIONS W1THVES4Z0ELA Uncle Sam Prepares, After Downfall of Oastro, fo Be Friend of (lie Nation. j DEPOSED PRESIDENT STILL HAS SUPPORTERS I Request for American Warship at La Gutfjra Is Promptly Granted. WASHINGTON, Dots. 23. After eight months the United States resumed re-sumed friendly relations with Venezuela Vene-zuela and William I. Buchanan has left on tho orniser North Carolina to visit that . country, lool into the situation and make a report to tho state department. depart-ment. This will decido wh other tho : United States will accord formal recognition rec-ognition to tho government. It has not yet been fully established that the Gomes government will retain its power without trouble, for there are many adherents of President Castro in tho country. Indeed, tho possibility that disorder may ariso is indicated in a j request for an American warship at La Guayra, to which this government has promptly responded. The general opinion is tbat the new order of things will open tho way for the pacific settlement, of Venezuela's disagreements with this country, Holland Hol-land and France. When Trouble Stai-ted. Tho refusal in Alarch last by tho Castro administration to consider separately sep-arately the issues with tho United States made it plain that diplomacy could accomplish nothing further toward to-ward their settlement. Tho live claims which form tho basis of the last negotiations nego-tiations were those of A. F. Jurctt, who was expelled from the country; the New York and P.ermiidez Asphalt company and tho United States and Vcnezuelau company, tho Orinoco corporation aud the Oriuoco Steamship company, the amounts involved running into millious of dollars. Tn 10CW. the Venezuelan government having failed to satisfy claims against-it against-it by various powers, Great Britain, Germany and Italy blockaded tho ports of that country with the view to ;thc forceful collection of the debts. Venezuela Vene-zuela appointed Herbert W. Boweu, then American minister to Venezuela, as a commissioner to take up the question ques-tion with the various governments and he signed protocols with them whereby u certain percentage of the customs receipts re-ceipts was to be set asitlo to satisfy tho claims. Tho blockading powers wcro made preferred creditors. Revocation, of Decree Tho revocation of the transshipment decree of May 14 by the Vonczuolau government was announced today by S'orcign Minister Van Swinderen. It was this decree that made most of the troublo between Vonezuoln and the Netherlands. Under its terms tho transshipment trans-shipment of goods ut Willemstad destined de-stined for Venezuela was prohibited. This worked much injury to the commerce com-merce of tho Dutch island. Tho foreign for-eign minister said also that tho Dutch naval operations along the Venezuelan coast had been suspended, at tho request re-quest of Acting President Gomez. |