Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-18

stance to an invasion and conquest of Venezuelan territory.
 In conclusion MT Olney instructed MT. Bayard to lay the views given before Lord Salisbury, and said "They dhe views) call for a definite decision upon the point whether Great Britain Wlll consent or will decline to submit the Venezuelan boundary question in It's en- tirety to impartial arbitration.
 Expressing the presidents hope that the conclusion will be on the side of ar hitration, Mir. Olney concludes With the pointed statement that "if the president is to be disappointed in that hope, how ever, a result not to be anticipated, and in his judgment calculated to greatly embarrass the future relations between this country and Great Britain, it is his wish to be acquainted with the fact at such early date as will enable him to iay the whole subject before congress in his next annual message"
 Lord Sallsburys reply is addressed to Sir Julian Pauncefote, British ambassa- dor at Washington, under date ot No- Vember 26 last. This dealt only with the appropriation of the Monroe doctrin' { in the case at issue, and was followe . on the same day by another note discuss- ing the boundary dispute per SC. At the outset Lord Salisbury states that so far as he is aware the Monroe doctrine has never been before advanced on behalf
 
 munication addressed to the government of any other nation. He gives what he believes is the interpretation of the doc Urine and maintains that the dangers which were apprehended by President Monroe have no relation to the state of things in which we live at the present day, and adds. with thinly covered irony, that "it is intelligible that Mr Olney should invoke in defense of the views on which he is now insisting an authority (Monroe) which enjoys so high popular ity with his own fellow countrymen."
 The dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela, ayers Lord Salisbury, is a controversy with which the United States have no apparent practical concern.
 Continuing in short, pithy sentences he says it is difficult indeed to see how the question in controversy can materially affect any state or community outside those primarily interested that the dis puted frontier of Venezuela has nothing to do with any of the questions dealt with by President Monroe, and that 1t is not a question of the colonization by an Flu ropean power of any portion of Ameri- ca, nor of the imposition upon the com munitles Of South America of any sys- tenn of government devised in Europe
 Tt is" he says, simply the determina- ton of the frontier of a British possess sion which belonged to the throne of England long before the republic of Ven ezuela came into existence" As he pro- ceeds in the discussion the language of Lord Salisbury becomes tart He ar gues in theory that the Monroe doctrine in itself is sound, but disclaims any in- tention of being understood as express ing any acceptance of 1t on the part of her majesty's government. He quotes MT. Olney as saying: That distance and 5000 miles of intervening ocean make any political union between a European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient will hardly be denied" and adds that "the meaning of these words Is that the union between Great Britain and Canada, between Great Britain, Ja- maica and Trinidad, between Canada and British Honduras or British Guiana are inexpedient and unnatural"
 President Monroe, says his lordship, dis claims any such inference from his doc Urine. but in this, as in other respects, MT Olney develops it. "He lays down." says Lord Salisbury, "that the inexpedi- ent and unnatural character of the union between the un-American state Is so ob- vious that 1t will hardly be denied. Her majesty's government Is prepared em- phatically to deny it on behalf of both the British and American people who are subject to her crown. They maintain that the union between Great Britain and her ties in the hemisphere are both nat ural and expedient but they are not pre- pared to admit that the recognition of that expediency is clothed with the sane tion which belongs to adoption of inter- national law. They are not prepared to admit that the interests of the United States are necessarily considered in ev- cry frontier dispute which may arise be- tween the two states which possess do- minion in this hemisphere, and still less can they accept the doctrine that the United States is entitled to claim that the process of arbitration shall be ap- piled to any demand for the surrender of territory which one of those states may make against another"
 Lord Salisbury concludes with the statement that her majesty's govern ment has not surrendered the hope that the controversy beween themselves and Venezuela will be adjusted by reason able arrangemnts at an early date.
 The second note of November 26 is devoted to a discussion of the boundary dispute exclusive of its relation to the Monroe doctrine. This dispatch, now ever, sounds the keynote of Great Brit aims position with reference to MT. Ol- ney's representations. Lord Salisbury states that Great Britain has repeatedly expressed It's readiness to submit to ar bitration the conflicting claims of Great Britain to the territory of great mineral values, and follows this statement with these important words: But they the British government cannot consent to entertain or to submit to the arbitra ton of another power or a foreign jurist, how ever eminent, claims based on extrava- gant pretensions of Spanish officials in the last century, and involving the trans fer of large numbers of British subjects, who have for many years enjoyed the settled rule of the British colony, to na- tion of different race and language, whose political system is subject to ire uuent disturbance and whose institu- tions as yet too often afford very made quate protection to life and property. No issue of this description has ever been involved in the questions which Great Britain and the United States have consented to submit to arbitra ton, and her majesty's government are con- vinced that in similar circumstances the government of the United States would be equally s firm in declining to enter tain proposals of such a nature"
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