Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-03

of the Ovinuco running l9I miles south and from l5 to :1u miles cast and west. Ii is rich in minerals. mahogany. rosewood and tlyc wuu,lS
 They also have the right to mine asphalt on small island near Trinidad. The syn dicalr will invest a good deal of capital in working the concession, and Mir. Fisher is to br the manager.
 An Important Concession.
 WA>uI\UruN. April &.-Thrro is great deal more in tho news from Farihault of the grant uf a concession hy Venezuela at the mouth of the Orinoco than is indicat rd in the dispatch. This concession may brcumo moro ar less famous in tho his tory of the diplomacy uf the United states and Great Britain. The concession is well calculated tu bring to an acute stage the most truuhlrSumn diplomatic question he
 fore the state department and ono which has caused the administration moro real concern than the Allinnca affair the late GuA;rmalan Mexican dispute. and other internal junal episodes
 Tn" concession k in the heart of tho ter. ritu:y long in dispute hct wcon Venezuela and Great Britain. and EmhaSsadur Bay ard for Sumn timn has vainly strivcl. in accnrGHlcp with a resolution recently adopted lrS congress. tu persuade Great
 Britain tn submit the whole dispute to ar
 filtration. Great Britain being willing tC arbitlatr only beyond what is known as the Schuuhrr& line. There have been in timatiUns that tAc administration, in the event of q physical conflict over the dis
 putcd land, might deem it necessary in
 the enforcement If the Monroe doctrine tc
 follow up th" moral aid it has rendered
 Venezuela with moro substantial and DO
 tent uSSiStantC
 The fact that citizens of tho United
 states by this concession arc now thrust
 su Ia speak. hrtwvrn Great Britain and tho
 United StrtgS considerably increases the
 measure of this country's < responsibility.
 s|rnur .Andrado, the NrnrIuclan minister
 at Washington, when seen concerning the Farihault paragraph. said that he had nc
 official confirmation of the grant of the con Ci'S>iul, aNu IIlti>d that he does not doubt it's correct nvs~. lS il iS in line with reports that such runrv>siuus would be made. The land inclutirtI in the COuCrNSiUn. hU said. is the vital point of conflict hrtwCrn Great Britain and Venezuela. The Orin0ru is the yrrnt commercial artery of south America. running far inland through Ven. rIue!a. Brazil and other countries. strategic Point. Whoever control, the mouth of tho riv. CT. Minister Andradv said. will control | this grrHt commerce. Great Britain has taken puS~r~>;un uf Iuuta Sarina at the mouth, winch iS tu the Orinucn what the island of Gibraltar iS to thr Mrditr~r;. mean. Sh" has also equipped ;t naval sta l tiun on Trinidad island just uf r. Cmuuth, Her claims rIuhracr both hanks of the stream at the mouth II k part uf this | important strategic territory that Ven | c,uula grants the United states citizens, l The concession nr!r T@niGad island i> he | lir> rd to l'r the island cC latr~. II iS very near tu th" British Laval station and par tIrTIariy rich in asphalt
 | The present. c"llcr~Siun iS tho most cm | phatir G,, ,aT..tiuH of ownership NrnCIurla l has made >iI3rr IN~l. In that year a con, | rr><iuu Wa> madr to Mrs>rs. Fitzgerald ana TuruluN citizens of the United | StHtc~. f part If this Oriuoco territory | II was about la hr operated hy lnitrd | -tntv~ ruiuih'I.N know aS the NiauoA com | Inny when Great Britain entered such HI | emphatic protest that NCurIucla caucrlvU l the C,H, r~~inu
 sine then tho conflict hrtwrcn Great | Britain and Nrnr/urla has been wagcC l through ,tilurui,Iir channels. Now Ven | c/ur.a rt&l~~,ri~ her rights and turns then l over tn I'uI:,I Statr> citizens. Tho in l t,r, sting pl:v>; uI> thus arise What step: | will Great BrIHin tahc [" assert hc1
 claims " nni "Will II rndraN ur Ia prevent
 the United slAtre syndicate from "pcrat l ing itS ,uHc,.,~luH.'