The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-10-23
UNCLE SALTS ATTITUDE
England's Radical Action Causes
Excitement al Washington,
NOT L1KBTuB NICARAGUA AFFAIR,

oAN"h FAAhehNH - hNfihp' wv Nulib Wv ANNh"
Not LIKELY to secure III rountrnance Of
Our State Department-En gIand should
First Troye Her Calm.
WAsHGNGToN, Oct 23.-Grnat Britain's
radical steps on the Venezuelan question
continuc to excite the livclicst interest in
official and diplomatic circles. 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. President Crcspo, who had been
absent from the capital on a vacation, has
started back for the purpose, it is believed,
of filing the four vacancies in his cabinet,
which occurred recently. One of those
new officers is the minister of foreign at-
fairs There is no doubt entertained here
that Crcspo's new minister will share the
viows Of his predecessors, as no minister or
administration could survive in Venezuela
who did not make resistance to British
aggression its foremost policy.
Some of tho latest reports from London
cause comment and criticism among Off
cials here One of these statements attrib-
uted to Am bnssndor Bayard the declara-
ton that the Uruan incident is indepen-
dent of the boundary question, and that
former incident. 1t is pointed out here
that the two questions are inseparably con
nected. The Uruan incident is based on a
claim that the Venezuelans arrested Ser
gcant Bahercns, of the British constabu-
larry, on British soil, and that this indig-
nifty must be repaired. The Venczuelans
claim that it occurred on Venezuelan soil.
The gravity of the case depends on own
arshp Of the territory where the trouble
took place 1t is therefore considered to
involve the entire territorial Question, al
though it is IL specific incident arising in
the disputed territory. In Venezuela's an
swer to the first demand for rcparation on
this incident Minister Rojas said that the
rnparation was refused because it would
be a surrender of all the claims Venezuela
ever had made.
As it becomes more and more evident
that the British government is disposed to
make it appear that the Uruan incident is
parallel to the Corinto affair, and may
therefore b. treated in the same fashion
without leading to the intervention of the
United States, officials here are pointing
out the essential points of difference in the
two incidents, and Mr.. Bayard will doubt
less be instructed to emphasize these in
| his further representations on the subject
| to the British foreign office
In the first case Great Britain demanded
and obtained an indemnity from Nicara-
qua on the ground that her national honor
had been outraged by the summary ez-
pulson of her representative, although
the latter was only an humble consular
agent. The United States consented to
stand aloof on this occasion on the theory
that a nation had right to redress an in
suit.
cut, in the Uruan affair it cannot be
maintained for an instant that the British
government has a right to demand redress
FOR the arrest of its officials unless it shall
be first established that they were within
British territory, and thus the whole issue
Is raised rs preliminary. Ii these British
officers were n British territory then Ven
szuela must apologize and make any fur
thcr reasonable roparation, but before she
oun be rghttully expected to do this that
fact must ba clearly shown and nothing
but an agrcam mt, anicable or enforced,
upon The exact location of the boundary
line can settle this point.
Therefore, the attempt TO shift the issue,
involving as it does Il prejudgment of the
rights of Great Britain to territory claimed
by Venezuela, is not likely to secure the
countenance of our state department..