The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-26

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The Venezuela question is furnishing
I a good many newspaper sensations
I Much that is asserted one day, however,
/ is denied the next Il is impossible TO
/ tell what is true and what is false in the
I dispatches relating to the Venezuela af-
I fair. Naturally nothing is to be obtained
4 from the only reliable sources Of infor-
nation. There are. therefore. all sorts
Of rumors aaoat which get into the news
papers and are made the subjects Of
comment
4 day or two ago a London dispatch
declared that an interview had taken
/ place between Ambassador Bayard and
Lord Salisbury. in which the latter de-
/ clared positively that the English gov
ernment would not admit that the Mon
roe doctrine has any application 10 the
present dispute between England and
Venezuela. This statement was rather
startling in view of the fact that it had
been announced that our government
had notified England that it held that
the Monroe doctrine did apply. It meant
that a Point had been reached where our
government must either fight or rctraot.
a subsequent London dispatch stated.
however that Ambassador Bayard had
said that he had had no interview with
Lord Salisbury since last July. That be-
ing the case, war did not appear so i'm
minent.
A day or two ago it was telegraphed all
over the country that Secretary Olney
had made UP his mind to retire from the
cabinet because of a serious disagree
mont between the Presiden, and himself
in respect TO the Venezuela matter 1t
was further declared that this disagree
ment was the reason Secretary Olney
did not accompany the President to At
lanta. 1t is now denied that there has
been any disagreement and asserted that
there is the utmost harmony between the
President and his Secretary OF State in
regard to the Venezuela controversy.
1t is not remarkable how these fakes
get aaoat. Take the case of Secretary
Omey, for instance He did not accom-
pany the President or his trip south.
reason Some one said, doubtless, that
probably he was not on good terms with
| the President Another undertook to
give the reason, and unally it was con-
! cluded that the secretary had adopted
a very aggressive policy in the Vene-
zuela matter and that the President had
/ refused to sustain him.
! 1t is not positively known what our
! government has said to England in re-
| spect to the Venezuela dispute, nor
whether England has taken any steps
in that dispute of which our government
does not approve. What is supposed to
be the situation is this The Venezuelan
government arrested British officials on
| territory that is in dispute England has
| demanded reparation, just as she did in
the Corinto affair Venezuela refuses TO
make such reparation as England wants,
/ and is threatened. our government holds
that Englands demand is unwarranted
until it is settled whether the British
officials were on British or Venezuelan
soil when arrested. The question in
wolves the boundary dispute, and, hence,
the Monroe doctrine applies-that is, that
European powers shall not acquire fresh
/ territory on the American continent
We have no doubt that the boundary
dispute will be amicably adjusted but
before it is we shall have it announced
many times in the newspapers that the
| United States and Great Britain are on
the ragged edge of war.