Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-06-10
LABOR FOR OLNEY.
Diplomatic Questions He Will
Have to Tackle.
ONLY ONE PROMISES MUCH TROUBLE

Most Of the Others Having Been Practic-
ally Put on the completed Incident"
List by GreshaH-venexuela's Contrs-
versy with John Bull the Ticklish DIM
Guilty, - It Il Claimed to Involve the
Monroe Doctrine.
WASHINGTON, June 10.-Secretary OF
State Olney is not lacking in the least in
equipment for his new portfolio in the
cabinet, for during Secretary Gresham
incumbency he was consulted constantly
on the various complications over Vene-
zuela, Nicaragua. Behring sea, the Wal
Ter case, foreign tariff retaliation, the
Japan. China treaties, Spain's conflict
with Cuba and the lesser questions in
which the United States. has been brought
into relation with the rest OF the world.
The last year was unusually fruitful in
foreign complications. Some of these
were closed by Gresham, or advanced to
snch a stage that they will not give Sec.
rotary Olney any great trouble. But
there are tTo questions pending with
Great Britain that promise no end Of
diplomatic pour parlers" b.fo.e they
are satisfactorily adjusted
Venezuela the Tender Point
These questions are the Venezuela and
the Behring sea sealing matter. The seals
will doubtless cause a lot of CORE.
spondence and much work of commits
sions, but there is little danger OF any
thing more serious in the settlement OF
the matter. The Venezuela question is a
horse of another color and will require
o;o - hi,
about q serious difficulty between the
United States and Great Britain. 1t will
possibly define the Monroe doctrine,
which just now is made to cover a varied
quantity of surface according to whether
the defirBcr is in favor of a vigorous
American policy or not, There is hard.
ly doubt of n vigorOuS-it not acrimoni-
ous-1ipknnatic controversy over the mat.
ter.
John Bull Not Will.n; to Arbitrate.
The United States, by act of congress
practically, has asked Great Britain to
arbltrave the question. So far as is known
no definite answer has been given to A m
bassador Bayard, who presented the re.
quest of this csuntry. But Us the British
foreign d flee has positively declined to
consider similar requests by Pope Lee
and by TIN, International Arbitration as.
sociationy it is not doubted that IN due
| time a dl'cilnation will come to the
United States. 1t will then remain 70,
the state department to determine to
what extent British aggression" in
Venezuela A compatible with the Monroe
doctrine. Gresham had made special
study of: the subject, regarding it as OF
more Importance than any OF the for.
eign Questions under consideration.
Cunss Will Cause Trouble with spain.
The Cuban revolution promises to be q
source of controversy with Spain. Minis
ter Deputy de LONE has already asked the
state department to apprchcni those
sendin z arms to Cuba, and the sugges
ton Is made tina, Spain will make a claim
against the United States based on thi
| proceed emit CT the Alabama claims. Official:
are d OF so!icitiOus, however, as to thi:
claim. and the intimation is made that il
| is inspired by British sources and in re
| sentlr ent for the Alabama decision. The
} murd sr of a mum Der of Italians in Colo
| ratfufby the mob. it is understood, Score
| ary>iresham regarded such an infringe
mont of international rights that he in
| augur ated negotiations for the pay menl
! OF cash. indemnities to the families of the
| deceast Il Italians.