Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-23
THE VENEZUELAN MATTER.

TO inquire into the Venezuelan bound
airy matter.
When the commission is appointed
and is provided with all the documents.
maps and other information in The State
Department, and with all the clerical,
assistance and help Of experts which it
requires, the administration will SIM
ply await the result OF its examination
into the question. 1t is not thought
that the commission will GO to Vene-
zuela or even leave Washington. If, as1
lis believed by some of the Leading man
in Congress who have examined all the
published documents, the evidence
will induce the commission to decide in
favor of England, the outcome will be
very simple and satisfactory. If the
commissions decision is the other way,
it will simply be used in further nego-
tiations, unless England shall make
them impracticable, which is not ex
pected.
There is very decided decrease in
the war feeling, and much less expecta-
ton of any outbreak of hostilities, al
though it has never heen supposed by
any intelligent observers that such an
outbreak would result except as an &C
cident.
The London Times yesterday printed
a whole page of telegraphic dispatches
on the subject of Venezuela. The fnan-
cial article says: Although the panic
has subsidized, it will take long time to
repair the injury done. In the first
place, many investors have become i'm
pressed with the idea, which is new to
| them, that the attitude of many edu-
Gated persons in America regarding
foreign affairs is wanting in breadth and
depth of view. European statesmen
and financiers have always allowed for
/ this deficiency, but in this event they
were surprised by the current of events.
Probably President Cleveland was de-
luded with the idea that whatever the
result of the message, he could easily
borrow on the continent" The Times
editorial says: President Cleveland's
manifest incapacity to understand the
| effect of his warlike message would
have shattered the confidence felt iu
4
the mainstay of public credit. 1t would
be strange though not unnatural re-
suit of President Cleveland's action
were he compelled to assent to an in
crease in the tariff and to agree to the
demands of the silver ring"
A dispatch from London says No
excitement has been manifested here in
political circles over the Venezuelan
complications, although their effect has
been felt on the Stock Exchange. There
has been some unloading of American
securities, but the Cabinet Ministers are
all enjoying the Christmas holidays in
The country, aud outside the utterances
of the newspapers there is nothing to
indicate that war is apprehended.
Another dispatch from Lonpon says
The financial and commercial war which
England has virtually declared against
the United States is being pushed rapid
| ~ to extremities. A second conference
! of London bankers has decided TO re.
fuse to renew American obligations
when they fall due. Fridays wild rush
to get rid of American securities at al
most any price continued Saturday
nearly to the close of the market.
| 1t is estimated in London that it is
not so much the Monroe doctrine to
which England Objects as it is Secretary
Olney's application of it to the Vene-
zuelan affair.
In an article on the Venezuelan qnes-
ton the London Spectator says: mo
body here dreams of menacing the
United States; nobody here has the
faintest idea of conqueriDg, colonizing
or claiming any fresh portion of the
two Americas, and nobody disputes the
right of the United States to defend any
State 10 America which she may think
it proper in her interests to defend. All
| ge maintain is that we are entitled 10
protect against Spanish aggression
| frontiers which we believe are
PROFESSIONALLY ours, and which thepeo
Pile of the United States, if Guiana were
| theirs, would similarly defend. We
are not even defending them against
the United States, whose nearest terri,
tory is twelve hundred miles distant,
but against a turbulent little Spanish
State which was born after we made
our settlement in Guiana, and, there
fore, ia in no way assailed, menaced or
injured by our action"
The Paris Temps publishes dispatch
from Rome saying that Italy has. offer
ed to act as arbitrator of the difficulty
between Great Britain and the United
States. Great Britain, the dispatch
adds, has not replied to the offer.
The German press continues to coz
denim President Cleveland for his met
sage upon the Venezuelan dispute. In
German government and political
circles the attitude of Prime Minister
Salisbury is approved.
The New York Herald's special cor
respondent in Caracas, Venezuela,
sends word that the popular feeling
grows more intense against England.
The public now demands the mobiliza-
ton of the National Guard.
a canvass of New York business men
shows that the commercial world fayors
careful deliberation in dealing with
England in regard to the Venezuelan
dispute.
The Heralds correspondent in Rio
Janeiro, Brazil, sends word that the
Brazilian minister to this government
has been in correspondence with Brazil
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of calling Pan
American conference to discuss the
Monroe doctrine.
Many New York ministers preached
yesterday on the Venezuela controver-
sy, saving that the talk of war, es.