The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1895-04-06
NAY Be TROUBLE.
UNCLE SAM AND JOHNNY BULL dAY
YET SCRAP.
Minncsot. Men Are Granted a Con.
cession by veaesueln of Land
Which England Claims and
Has Recently Taken
pOHxcxsiOu OF.
MAKES THE OUTLOOK SERIOUS.
The Concession Considerably In.
creases the Prospects Of Row
Between England and America.

Washington, April 4, - A telegram
was received here from Faribault,
Minn., stating that Donald Grant aud
DIR. +. NJ. Rose, whGaccompanied w.
H. Fisher late Il. .|k6ager Of the Du.
luth 4 Winnipeg road. J.. A. Bowman.
q Grand Rapids banker, and others,
to Venezuela, some time ago, have re-
turned. The party went down to ex.
anime the country with vi,w to the
improvement of u valuable concession
made by the Venezuelan government
some years ago, and which, through
the default Of the original grantees, of
whom Mr.. Bowman was one, nnd
changes in the government, might
pass into new hands. Mr.. Grant says
that he was very much impressed
with the appearance of the country
so far as he has examined 1t.
: The offered concession embraces a
tract of land Eear the mouth of the
Orinoco river, running 125 miles north
and south of 1t, and 1t extends from
fifteen to fifty miles east and west.
There is q vast amount Of very fine
hard timber. upon the land, compris-
ing mahogany, dye woods, rosewood,
etc. There are numerous iron mines
there also. The concession also en-
braces Trinidad island with it's BIZ
luminous lake, and another small
island, on which is a lake of the same
asphaltum pitch in inexhaustible
quantities. It is probable that COM
pany, comprising the men who went
to Venezuela and some of their Min
nesota friends, vii: take up this con-
cession, which the return to power of
the party originally granting it al.
lows, and will develop it to the ut
most.
Raises o Diplomatic Question.
. There is a great deal more in the
news Of the grant than ia indicated in
the dispatch. This concession may
became more or less famous in the
history Of the diplomacy of the United
States and Great Britain. The con-
cession is well calculated to bring to
an acute stage the most troublesome
diplomatic questions before the state
department, and one which. as ex-
clusively stated heretofore in Associ-
ated Press dispatches, has caused the
administration more real concern than
the Alliance affair, the late Guate-
uldAdu-NAcAlcO dispute AilU OlIler inter.
national episodes. The concession is
In the heart of the territory long in
dispute between Venezuela and Great
Britain. and Amba ssador Bayard for
some time has vainly striven, in ac-
cordance with resolution recently
adopted by congress. to persuade
Great Britain to submit the whole dis
pute to arbitration, Great Britain be-
ing willing only to arbitrate beyond
what is known as the Schomberg line.
There have been intimations that the
administration, in the event Of a
physical conflict ever the disputed
lands, might deem 1t necessary in the
enforcement of the Monroe doctrine to
follow up the moral aid 1t has ten
dered Venezuela with more substan-
ttal and potent assistance. The fact
that citizens of the United States now,
by this concession, are thrust, so to
speak. between Great Britain and the
United States, considerably increases
the measure Of this governments re-
sponsibility.