| Show venezuelan TREATY NOT YET SIGNED continuous exchange of cable messages as to details venezuela has ceased to be a party to the Protocol Arbitration to be carried on by her representative senta tive and friend the united states matters rapidly shaping toward the end 9 the fact that the protocol ol 01 the proposed venezuelan treaty of arbitration lias not yet been signed ie made manifest by many signs today there bae u continuous exchange of cable messages on matters of detail between this city and london but that some general principle of agreement baa been determined on is not doubted and has repeatedly been staled in these the question of whether or not venezuela ie a party to the agreement appears to be Betl lel by the official correspondence spon dence and by collateral facts when secretary ainey rn behalf of venezuela made his flatt peremptory demand on great britain tor arbitration lord salisbury after long delay responded with two vigorous kettere let tere one of them attacked the monre doctrine claiming that mr stretching it too far the other attached the venezuelan demands asserting that they were exorbitant then president cleveland cent into concree Conc reB hia famous message and lord salisbury oa may last wrote to br julian accepting for the first time the of arbitration but only in carlial form and confining it to great and the united states he asks sir julian to submit this proposition to the government of the united states acting as the friend of venezuela in thia matter his proposition was for a commission to be created by agreement between great britain and abe united states to be composed of two british subjects and two citizens of the united state to investigate vesti gate and report upon the facts without referring to inferences but the finding of the commission to be binding upon both governments in this letter be distinctly specified the united stages and not venezuela as the party of the second part but still there was contained proposition in lord letter to sir julian which deemed to imply some necessity for consent on the part of venezuela inasmuch as it war provided that on the report of the commission being issued the two governments of great britain end venezuela should endeavor to agree to a boundary line and fail ineda the agreement there should be arbitration by three one by great britain one by venezuela and they to select a third with a proviso that all settlements of british subjects prior to the airet of january 1887 were to u exempt on June 12 lsne secretary ainey accepted this cb allenee but most important modifications since accorded to providing that the commission debould be amended by adding another member eo that it must reach e result and also provided that the should have power to decide the boundary question subject to the equities of each particular case of actual settler since limited to fifty yearn of occupation nowhere after this date does venezuela appear in the negotiations as a principal or as having a right io select sail arbitrator in support of be idea that the treaty ie to be between great britain and the united stale the latter as venezuela friend it ie pointed out that if the formal assent of that republic is re quiren to any protocol on the boundary question it could not be obtained under most favorable conditions until long after the of president cleveland will have expired by limitation the constitution of venezuela requires all treaties 0 o bi ratified by a vote of both boulee of the legislature in joint cecelon ee celon the legislature of venezuela doe not convene in regular semeion until february next even if an extra cession were to be called it auld take a are weeks notice to get it together under the usual methods of procedure in latin american countries the eummer of 1897 would be well advanced before the legislature would be ready to bebin to consider the question oilman on baltimore md NOT 11 president gilman of john university and one of the members of the venezuelan commission was asked today for his opinion as to whether the effect of the published decision was to make the monroe doctrine aa international law or to establish virtual protectorate on the part ot this country over venezuela he said it ia obvious that all the data requisite for the formation of un opinion have not yet been made public by the united states or great britain but enough liae been eaid to show thai the principle of the arbitration ia heartily accepted by both nations and that they are very nearly in complete accord upon the beet method of procedure indeed ahey are not absolutely so it will time enough to consider the relations of the correspondence between lord salisbury und mr ainey to the recognition of the monroe doctrine when that correspondence is published all that aeed be eaid at the moment is that alie administration in every difficulty and controversy has succeeded in a concert of action between be parties interested and that this is the interest of peace and international good will the war cloud with which the year opened has been dissipated by arguments investigations and conces eione |
