Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-19
THEIR NORMAL CONDITION
Excitement Abating at the State, War and
Navy Departments.
Many Callers Upon Secretary OIney
Today, Including the Venezuelan
Minister and Several Senator's.

Affairs at the State, War and Navy De-
partment are gradually resuming their nor
NAL condition. Although the excitement
ever the acute stage reached in the negotia-
tions for a settlement of the Venezuela
boundary dispute has not entirely subsidized,
it seems to be generally accepted that there
will be no material change in the status, at
least until the proposed commission shall
have been fully organized for business. Ac
ccrding to the general impression, the situa-
tion calls for no further correspondence be-
tween Secretary Olney and Lord Salisbury,
Unless one or the other shouid desire to
modify or recede from the position taken by
him.
Great Britain's Policy.
Inasmuch as Great Britain shows no dis
position to comply with the arbitration
proposition, it now devolves upon the United
States to proceed upon the lines indicated
in the Presidents message. AS the COM
mission will not be recognized by Great
Britain, it is not expected that she viii ac-
cept its conclusions. According to one Dip
lomat, Great Britain will remain passive
from now or, leaving it for the United States
to initiate measures tc enforce whatever
contentious 1t may make, based on the re-
port of its commission. The British policy,
it is said. will be to m AXE the United States
the aggressor and put upon this country the
responsibility for any hostillties that may
result from the attempted dispossession of
the British Guiana colonists.
Secretary Olney's Callers.
The President had a great many callers
this morning, but Secretary Olney had
more, and the latter was flooded with tele-
grams and messages from all parts of the
country congratulating him upon his pa
triotic ncte in support Of the Monroe doc
trine. Among the callers at the State De-
lated to the Venezuelan affair were Sen
atcrs Morgan, Dolph and Mills and Senior
Andrade, the Venezuelan minister. The
last famed took occasion to express the
qualification of his government for the
efforts being made by the United States
in her behalf.
Fears of Southern Republics Now Re
moved.
For some time there has been serious ap-
prehension in the southern republics that
when a crisis arrived the United States
would not regard it expedient vigorously to
enforce the Monroe doctl I'M. This feeling
was increased at the time of the British oc-
cupation of Corinto, and by the issuance
soon thereafter of a semi-official pamphlet
showing the narrow limitations of the Mon
roe doctrine. Under the circumstances
the recent official declarations of the Presi-
dent and the State Department have been
awaited with the deepest interest by all the
The message has met their most hopeful
expectations, and the Presidents utter
ances and Mr.. Olney's elaborate exposition
are accepted as a general enunciation Of
policy, applicable alike to all the countries
of the western hemisphere.
The suggestion is made with much direct
ness in diplomatic circles that the course of
the United States assures to it the moral
and physical support of all the southern and
Central American republics In the aycre-
gate. this allied strength of the western re-
pubiics, with the United States at its head
would constitute a new and formidable fac
tor in International affairs. 1t is not sus-
Sestei among diplomatists that such an al
nance VIII take the formal shane of a
treaty, but 1t is urged that the feeling of
union existing constitutes a compact aui:
as effective as a formal understandings In
thls connection, the fact was mentioned by
dlpIoHat mat the alliance of the cid word
notably the triple alliance, was not a formal
treaty made public to the world.
The ministers who called on Mr.. OInev
today say their visits were with a view 10
presenting their respects, but in view of the
Widespread satisfaction in South and Gem
tral American circles it is believed the
opportunity would not have passed without
some means of assuring the Secretary of
state of the prevalent feeling
Minister Andrade of Venezuela has re-
ceiVed official word of the selection of Pres
ldent CreSpoS new cabinet headed NV
Ezequiel Rojas minister of foreign af-
lars The cabinet has been announced
unofIicially heretofore
Secretary Olney was also for a short
time closeted with Mr.. McAdoo, the acting
secretary of the navy, who was called uDon
10 furnish information on some SPECIAL sIjb
ject.