Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-18
GWEN OR FIGHT.
About What the President Saws
to Lord Salisbury.
SHORT MESSAGE WITH MUCH PITH.

Monroe Doctrine Covers the Case and ANY
Attempt to Enforce the British View
Should lie Met with Resistance Regard
less Of Consequcnces-Propoxa That the
United States Send q Commission to the
Disputed Territory to Survey the Line
Presidents Words Applauded in the Sem
ate, with Not Dissenter.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S-The message of
President Cleveland to congress transmit
ting the correspondence between Secretary
Olney and Lord Salisbury relative to the
Venezuelan boundary dispute created n
real sensation in Washington. Although
the nature of Secretary Olney's vigorous
communication and of Lord Salisbury's
answer had been already accurately fore
told the dispatches from Washington and
London there was still great popular
craving to learn just how the president
would deal with Lord Salisbury's refusal
TO submit the matter to arbitration, and
the message was listened to with intense
interest in congress, and nowhere was
there voice lifted in dissent from the
doctrine so firmly laid down by the presi-
dent, but on the contrary there was an
outburst of patriotic feeling that must
have been highly gratifying to the chief
executive.
Applause Even in the Senate.
In the digniied United State senate, a
body that rarely exhibits emotion on any
occasion, there was witnessed the rare
spectacle of handclapping and applause
which was the spontaneous expression Of
the approval of almost every senator, with
out regard to party. On the streets the
message was discussed and old veterans of
the late war talked exultantly of what
they were prepared again to undertake at
the call Of their country. In the great hall
OF the pension building the employees
gathered and sang with gusto the ''Star
Spanglcd Banner" and MY Country, IT'S
Of Thee" At the White House messages
poured in from every quarter of the coun-
try congratulatinS the president upon his
message. They came from men of oil
parties and stations.
As Viewed by the Diplomats.
The matter, OF course, was of the great
| est interest in diplomatic circles, and the
general impression on sober second con-
sidera.ion Of the notes was that the mat
ter had not yet reached a stage where war
is imminent, and that the hint of Great
Britain's purpose to reopen negotiations
| with Venezuela looking to settlement of
the dispute between themselves, perhaps
| may be regarded as the indication of how
the whole matter will end. The satisfac-
ton of Minister Andrade, of Venezuela,
was almost beyond the power of express
| sion. THE message is superb" said he,
| with much enthusiasm. "IG is even a
surprise to me in its vigor, in the nobility
of the sentiments expressed and in the
mastery exposition of the Monroe doc
| trinc''
Interest ct the British, Embassy.
At the British embassy Sir Julian
Paunccfote and his extensive official corps
shared in the general interest in the ques-
ton. 1t was stated that the foreign office
ut London made public at noon yesterday
Salisbury's answer, simultaneous with the
publication here. Mr.. Bax-Ironsides, of
the embassy staff, went to the Capitol,
but was not present during the demon
stration in the senate. Beyond the Sails
bury letters the embassy has received no
Communications on the Venezuelan sub
ject, SO that the case rests on the zorro.
spondence submitted yesterday.