The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-12-26
NO WAR EXPECTED.
England Likely to Resume Re.
lations With Venezuela.
THIS COUNTRY WON'T BACK DOWN
However, n Peaceful Settlement, Honor
able to All Parties, Is Probable House
Appropriates Money For the Commits
sion-war Measures In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec IL. - President
Cleveland has had many callers, most
ly senators and representatives, who
came to congratulate him upon the at.
titude he had assumed in his message.
The kilograms commencing his course
were supplemented by letters coming
through the mails. Secretary Olney
also has had his share of callers.
Although there is nowhere a suggeS-
tion of any abatement of our claims,
and, indeed, it is generally recognized
that by announcing his determination
to hold Great Britain outside of the
boundary to be defined by our own com.
mission, the president has left no ave.
nue. for retreat; it is still confidently be-
lieved here that the difficulty can and
will be settled peaceably and with hon
ors to all parties concerned. This be-
lief is based upon the expectation that
Great Britain, as Lord Salisbury has
indicated in his last note, will re-estab-
lish diplomatic relations with Venezu-
ella. As the revolution in that country
has been quelled, and the internal
peace Lord Salisbury demanded as a
condition to resumption of Venezuela
negotiations is restored, he will treat
the subject, it is believed, and as he
practically promises in his note, in a
more compliant spirit than the British
| government has exhibited heretofore
In the negotiations, and thus speedily
reach an arrangement satisfactory TO
Great Britain and Venezuela, and so,
as a natural result, acceptable to the
| United States. la this way Great Brit
"a, nf
right of third party to interpose, and
| likewise escape an admission of the ao.
oeptability or applicability of the Mon.
roe doctrine.
1t is entirely probable that Great
Britain will abstain from presenting
any evidence in support Of her title to
the commission, for by so doing she
would admit our right to interpose,
which is the vital point in the contro'
versy, so that the commissions report
is likely to fall subject to the same
criticism that Lord Salisbury applied
to Secretary Olney's statement, namely,
that it is exparte and based entirely on
| the Venezuelan records.
One source of present danger which
! gives some apprehension to the ele'
ment that looks for peaceful solution
! Of the problem lies with the Venezue.
lans themselves, as it is feared that,
carried away by the enthusiasm they
may be led to attack the British out
posts on the Yuruan.
Lord Salisburys responses to Secre-
tary Olney's arguments are not re-
garded in official circles in Washing
ton as being weighty or logically strong.
The parallel he seeks to draw between
the Alaskan boundary question and
the Venezuelan boundary controversy
utterly falls, it is said, when viewed in the
light of the definition of the Alaskan
boundary given in the Russian treaty of
cession. As for bis objection to the in.
lection of the Monroe doctrine into in-
ternational law and the making of new
international law by the United States.
1t is recalled that international law. as
Speaker Reed once remarked OF par
liamentary law, sis not an exact
science, that it is made and amended
from time to time by nations able TO
support their views, aud that the
Un ted States has as sound right TO
apply this doctrine to American affairs
as mad some of the European powers
by combination TO regulate affairs in
Eur lpe and force their views upon
On sntal nations.
/ ia improbable that Secretary Olney
| will make response TO Lord Sails.
bpry's notes at this time. beyond a