The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
MORGAN ON TREATY RIGHT
Acquired by Treaty With
Native indians
THE LITTLE By, ARRANGEMENTS
Are Made in the Teeth of Ac=
cepted Doctrine
IN ACQUIRED TERRITORY
Whenever Gained by Conquest or by
Discovery
Native Indians Are Considered as Merely
Occupants at Will
IN ACQUIRED TERRITORY
Whenever Gained by Conquest or by
Discovery
Native Indians Are Considered as Merely
Occupants at viii
For This Reason English Claims In Venezuela
Based Upon Treaties With Indian
Chiefs Should Not Be Rec.
ognized by Interna-
tional Law
4 ssociated Press Special Wire


WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Senator Nor
gan of A ALBANIA, chairman of the foreign
relations committee, and an authority on
international law. in an interview here,
called attention to Lord Salisbury's claim
that Great Britain had acquired rights in
the disputed territoy adjoining Vene-
zuela by treaty with the native Indian
tribes. He said:
'For the last three-quarters of GEN.
tury Great Britain has been forming,
wherever she could, little by.arrange
ments with the Indian tribes that had
chieftains that we're regularity constituted
into tribes. 1t was in that way that she
recognized the Mosquito king, Clarence.
Such treaties with such people are made
right in the teeth of the we'll understood
and we'll accepted doctrine of Great Brit
ain, Germany, France, Spain and all the
American states, which is that when
country has acquired ny conquest or dis
coseiy any territory, the Indian tribes
found therein are considered as oc Gu
pants at will of the sovereign, and not
regarded as nations having sovereignty,
such sovereignty inuring 20 the nations
that conquered or discovered the terri
tory. A recognition OF sovereignty of
such Indian tribes has been regarded as a
breach of the international rights of other
nations.
For this reason any claims of Great
Britain with Venezuela, based upon pri-
vate treaties with Indian chiefs. are of no
avail and should not be recognized as be-
ing in conformity with international law
I'thinkGreat Britain is prepared now to
adjust the Venezuelan boundary ques
tinn on the lines tnat were surveyed by
Schom oera. Whenrthat line was estaD-
lished tue British coionists Commenced
MOVING out to it aud making settlements Is.
and particularly taxing up gold claims,
and Venezuela, in her weakness, has been
compelled to stand by and see that course
pursued until Great Britain sets up
claim similar to that of man who has
occupied for number years territory be-
longing to some one else. | would sup
pose that unless Great Britain moves to
the north and westward of the Sohom-
berg line it is hardly probable that the
United States can be inuvlved in the con-
tioversy, but if she is ever involved IN
such a controversy the British govern
ment ought to Obs compelled to avow or
disayow the dependence of various petty
charges.
4 "Eugland might 60 to Alaska and en-
ter into treaty with chiefs OF Indian
tribes there with as much reason as she
could make treaties with such chiefs 10.
Gated to the south OF us.
The gold fields and the territory at the
mouth of the Orinoco. which is the key
to the control of the entire central por-
tion Of Venezuela. were. Senator Morgan
said, the thngs that inspired Great
Britains course. In the interview the
senator also urged that it should be made
part OF the foreign policy Of the United
States to secure an understanding by
which we could deal in diplomatic mat
tiers directly with Canada and Cuba in
stead of through Great Britain and Spain.
Turning to Cuba, the senator VAS asked,
do you think congress would be favor
able to the purchase of Cuba if such q
proposition were acceptable to Spain?'
II have no right to suppose that con-
Eress would. l can only suppose that
Spain, like every other nation, will in
the end consult the highest interest of
her people and she may find it to be a
patriotic duty TO free herself from the
control of Cuba, which has more influ-
ence on politics in Spain today than any
local Que tion in the Kingdom. l do not
care ANYTHING about the acquisition OF
Cuba as an addition to our territory, but
l should want it for the military strength
1t would give us"
lis England liable to interpose ?any
objection 10 the United States acquiring
Cuba or take any active pare in the strug-
gle now going on in that island?'
= "That will depend upon awhether she
thinks she can make anything by it. She
wond not like to do anything that would
result in an open rupture with the
United States. Great Britain is in no
position to use coercion or threats in her
policy toward the United States. She
has resorted to very different policy of
late years, and she now seeks her ends
by negotiatiors. She has so many nos
sessions near our coast tnat war would
be great disaster to her, because no
matter how much our commerce or our
cities might be injured by her navy, the
conclusion of that war would see Canada
and the islands off our coast in the hands
of the United States -