The Indianapolis journal., 1895-10-22
OHiciaI Statement Of the steps Taken
to Secure Rcparation for the
"Outrage' at Uruan.
MIR. BAYARD INTERVIEWED
HE SAYS THIS COUNTRY CANNOT IN
TERFERE IN THE DISPUTE.
venexueIa Likely to Have N Dose of
ragua-Comment of the Press.


tude Of Great Britain toward Venezuela.
the following official announcement was
made to-day: 'In consequence of venezu-
Ella not offering an apology or reparation
for the Uruan incident the Marquis of
Salisbury has taken steps 10 inform her
as to what reparation Great Britain
quires. But as the relations between the
two countries have been broken Off for
some years, the communication was not
sent, through the direct diplomatic chan
mel. AS the document has not reached its
destination 1T is not considered desirable
to give details OF its contents. But it is
couched in forcible terms and points out
that Great Britain will not permit venezu-
Ella to overstep the boundaries marked by
the courses of the rivers Cuyuni and AM
acura, but is willing that the question of
the other disputed territory should be SUBJ
mitted to arbitration
The Exchange Telegraph Company this
afternoon sent out report of an interview
which one OF its representatives has had
with the United States ambassador, the
Hon. Thomas f. Bayard. Mr.. Bayard is
quoted as saying that he will probably re-
ceive an immediate answer from the Mar
quis of Salisbury on the Venezuelan ques-
ton, and that the United States will be
quite satisfied If its overtures lead to nego-
tiations for the resumption of the consid-
GRAFTON of the frontier dispute. The United
States ambassador is also said to have in
formed the representative of the Exchange
Telegraph Company that the United States
can do nothing regarding the Marquis of
Salisbury's demand for an indemnity from
Venezuela.
A high official of the British FOREIGN
Office to-day said that Great Britain had
not sent an ultimatum to Venezuela, but
that a dispatch on the subject OF the mis-
understanding between Great Britain and
Venezuela had been forwarded to Presi-
dent Crespo. This, added the informant. is
a very different thing, as all persons ac-
quainted with the principles OF diplomacy
will recognize. Continuing. he said: Lord
Salisbury thinks that sufficient time has
elapsed for reparation to have been made
and with this view prepared the dispatch in
question:
What Provoked the British.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2l.--The London corre-
spondent of the World cables the follow
ing: I'm conversation tonight with an
official of high standing and intimately ac
quainted with all the inside facts of the
Venezuelan dispute / learned that the min
fsterial contention here is that the present
decisive action of the British was provoked
by the recent dispatch from the American
State Department enforcing in strenuous
terms the Monroe doctrine i'm connection
with the question. My informant told me
that, to his positive knowledge at an in
terview at which ambassador Bayard was
communicating the terms of a dispatch to
Lord Salisbury the latter interrupted him
midway with the remark that he need
not proceed further, as the British
government could not even entertain areu-
ments put forward ana absolutely declined
to recognize such an application of the
Monroe doctrine. The terms of Lord Sails
burys written reply were practically the
same and including a complaint in which
the question had been dealt with in the
dispatch of the American government as
increasing the difficulties of the situation.
In the same document the State Depart
ment was invited to remember that Eng
land was an American power before the
existence of the United States and her
rights on the American continent conse-
quently anterior to those of the United
States.
"Embassador Bayard, in further COM
munication TO the British Foreign Office.
pointed out that there is no certainty that
England is right about the Venezuelan
frontier as in the British Colonial Office
LIST, the authorized publication of the colon
ial report, it is stated that the boundaries
of British Guiana have never been clearly
defined in regard to the points now in dis
pute. This was an awkward reference for
the British government, but Lord Sails
bury replied that the Colonial Office list,
not being an official publication. the Brit
ish government could not be responsible
for its statements"