Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-10-28
VENEZUELAN SITUATION.
Great Britain's UItimatum Has Not
Reached Caracus-Gravity
of the Case,

Washington, D. c., Oct 22.-Great
Britain's radical steps in the Venezuelan
question continue to excite the liveliest
interest in official and diplomatic cir
cles. The demand has not yet reached
Caracas, as is evident from the fact that
Minister Andrade has not yet heard from
his government on the subject. Presi-
dent Crespo, who has been absent from
the capital on a vacation, has started
back for the purpose, it is believed, of
filling the four vacancies in his cabinet
which occurred recently. One of these
new officers is the minister of foreign af-
fairs. There is no doubt entertained
here that Crespo's new minister will
share the views of his predecessors, as
no ministry or administration could sur
yive in Venezuela which did not make
resistance to British aggression it's fore
most policy.
Some of the latest reports from L 'nlol
cause comment and criticism among Of
fcials here. One of these statements,
attributed to Ambassador Bayard is a
declaration that the Uruan incident is in
dependent of the boundary question and
that the United States can take no part
in the former incident. 1t is pointed out
here that the two questions are insepara-
bly, connected. The Uruan incident is
based or claim that the Venezuelans
resisted Secretary Beherns of the board
of onstabulary on British soil and that
this indignity must be repaired. The
VeneZueians claim that it occurred on
Venezuelan soil. The gravity of the case
depends on ownership of the territory
where the trouble took place. 1t is
therefore considered to involve the entire
territorial question: although it is a spe>
ciic incident arising in the disputed ter
rltory. In Venezuela's answer to the
demand for reparation on this incident
Minister Rojas said that the reparation
was refused because it would be a SUR
render of all the claims Venezuela ever
had made.
London Press Comment.
London, Oct. 22.-The afternoon news
papers of this city again comment on the
dispute between Great Britain and Vene-
zuela and in the same tone as yesterday.
The St. James Gazette, for example,
declared itself to be opposed to arbitra-
ton in any form, saying: Arbitration
not only does not apply to the present
dispute, but it is the usual thing, when
there is course to this kind of interna-
tionaI tribunal, for the arbitrator to find
against England and the weight Of evil
dence, and in the few cases where the
finding has been in our favor the other
side declined to pay"
The ST. James Gazette then instances
the Alabama, Delagoa bay and Behring
sea disputes in support of it's contention
that international tribunals usually find
against England and the weight of evil
dence.
More attention is attracted now than
formerly to the utterances of the St.
James Gazette against arbitrating the
dispute, as this newspaper seems to have
had somewhat of the inside track
throughout in Venezuelan news here,
and it is therefore believed to have been
inspired by high government official
thoroughly familiar with the subject and
aware Of the policy to be followed by
the MARQUIS of Salisbury