The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-19
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taken and asked for further mlotma- ton,
 Washington. Dec 1S.-The North At lantlc squadron of evolution is still at
 Hampton Roads awaiting orders to sail southWard on the practice voyage to the West Indies and adjacent wa | ters. According to the itenerary for | the cruise the longest stops will be made
 at St. Lucia and Trinidad, the points nearest i'm its program to the Nenezue- ! Ian coast. It was learned at the navy | department to-day that, although 1t had been intended that the squadron should sail on December 21 it's departure will probably be postponed until the re-
 turn of Secretary Herbert from New York, which may not be before Monday,
 although Friday is the likeleet date.
 Admiral Bunce is expected to confer
 with Secretary Herbert before the | fleets departure. The squadron at present consists of the first class cruiser | New York as flagship, the commerce de- stICyers Columbia and Minneapolis, the cruisers Montgomery and Raleigh and
 the monitor Ahphitrite. At Key West
 the fleet will be augmented by the
 cruiser Cincinnati, and orders were is
 sued to-day that the armOred cruiser Maine should be attached to the squad
 ron. An effort will be made to have
 the battleship Texas ready to join Ad-
 miral Bunce before his departure,
 | There was considerable speculation
 among members of the house to-day as
 to the personnel of the commission
 which the president, if the bill passed
 by the house becomes a law, will ap- point to Investigate the divisional line
 between Venezuela and British Guiana,
 Had not tha house adjourned at so early
 an hour it was the purpose of MT. Me | Creary of Kentucky, who has been three
 times chairman of the committee on 1 foreign affairs. to offer @ resolution that
 the number of commissioners shaN be
 five; that they shall report as soon
 as practicable. and that they be au-
 thCrized to take whatever action may be necessary and proper to perform the 1 duties assigned to them. This would
 permit them to visit the disputed ter
 ritory, if in their judgment such were
 aGVisab ble. Upon this point there is a
 division of sentiment among the rep
 resentatives. It is not denied that all necessary data is available, and for
 this reason it is claimed that no occa-
 sion exists for visiting Venezuela. On
 the other hand it is asserted that per sonal inspections are frequently made | by jures in disputed land cases where l the evidence on both side,: is strong
 and conflicting and that if this is done l in civil suits between individuals the | greater is the necessity for taking siml-
 lar action in a case of such gravity as | that in question.
 | While the sentiment is strongly in l harmony with the presidents recon.
 mendatiors there is a disposition on ! the part of the conservatives to make | haste slowly" Already gossip is busy connecting the names of Chief Justice ! Fuller of the supreme court, ex-Presi- dent Harrison, ex-Senator Edmunds and other well known men with the | proposed commission. But in the mean time the resolution has to run the i gauntlet of the senate committees
 some of whose members have mani
 tested disposition to load it down | With important amendments.