The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-10-23
lNonEAslNG lN INranEsE.
How the Afiair Is Viewed In DlPiO matte
Circles at Washington.

How the Afiair 10 viewed In Dlplo matte
Circles at Washington.
wAsHlRaroS, Oct. 22.-Groat Britain'S
radical steps on the Venezuelan que,.
tion continue to excite the lvelio,t in
tsrest In official aud diplomatic circleh
Tue demand has not yet reached
Caracas, as is evident from the fact tha.
MIniHter Audrade has not yet heard
from his government on the subject.
President CTsspO, who has been absent
from the capital on vacation. has
started back for the purpose, Is is be-
lieYsd, OF filling the four vacancies in
his cabinet which occurred recently.
One Of these new ofticars is tho minis.
Ter Of foreign aaRirG. There is no doubt
entertained here that Ctespo's now
minister will share the views Of his pra'
deceSsors, a. no ministry or admlnis'
tration could survive in Venezuela
which did not make resistance to Brit
hh aggression itS foremost policy,
THE URfAS INCIDENT.
Some oil the latest reports from Lon.
don cause comment aud criticism among
officials here. Ono OF these statements
attributes TO Ambassador Bayard the
declaration that the Urian incident Is
independent OF the boundary question,
and the United States can take no part
10 the former incident 1t is pointed
out hare that the two questions arc IN.
separably connected. The Urian Incl
dsnLis based on a claim that tho Nen6.
zuolauG arrested Sergeant Behrons, OF
the British constabulAry on British
soil, and that this iudignily must he
repaired. The Nenezualans claim that
II occurred on Venezuelan soil. Tho
gravity OF the case depends therefore is
considered 10 inyolvelthe entire terri.
torial question, although It lsA specific
incident arising in tho disputed terri.
tory. Ia VeneZnela's answer to tho first
demand for reparation OH this incident
Minister RojaJ sAid that tho reparRliou
was refused because IL would DO sur.
render Of all the claims Venezuela ever
had made.
GREAT BRlTGIS's CONTENTION.
AZ It becomes moro and more evident
that the British government is disposed
to make II appear that tho Urian Incl.
dent IL parallel 10 the Corinto affair,
and may therefore DO treated in tho
fashion without tending TO tho inter.
yenlion OF the United States. officials
here are pointing out essential points Of
difference In the two incidents, aud Mr.
Eagard will doubtless 10 instructed 10
emphasize those Ia his further repre-
son,ationl on tho subject TO the british
Iorsgn 6llico. In the first case Great
Britain demanded and obtained m H..
demnity from Nicaragua on tho ground
that hOF national honor had boon out.
raged by tho summary expulsion OF iis
representative. lhs UnitOl States con.
rnol 10 stand nloot on lhia occasion on
the theory that a nation had right TO
rIrrB5 M insult,
EaEyuAL POINTS or DlPFERrSCg
Bat in tho Urlan affair II cannot bO
maintained for nn instant that tho
British government has a right to de-
manI rclrou Tor tho nrrOSt Of liz oil.
ciaI unless II shall bO first established
that tnay W0rO within BfillilI tofrltoty
and thui tho whole issue In raised ~ q
preliminary. II those Btillsh oIllcofa
were In British territory tliBn Vonr1uoln
must apologies, aud mako any iutlhOf
reasonable tnpaFailon; but, b0lofo Bllo
r1n b1 rgiti1lly expected 10 do this,
Tint fact must bo clearly shown aud
nollling but an agfonnont nlnlcohlo or
enforced upon tho nxag. location ul tho
lonndNfy limo can sotlin this point
lhorNIDfe, thu all1mpt to ahiit tho l0luo.
involving NJ II docs pf1iulrmont Of
lro rights NJ HroNt Britain 10 territory
claimed by YBnOluoIn, " not likely 10
secure the continuance Of our ainlo do
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