New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-24
PART II.
PAGES 10 TO IS.
SALISBURY STATEMENT.
FILL TEXT OF HIS SECOND NOTE TO SIR
JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE

JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE
Owing TO the crowded condition Of the telegraph
wires and the lateness of the hour when the cor
rospondence in the Venezuelan boundary dispute
uas made public last week II was possible to send
ont from Washington only brief synopsis OF Lord
saljsbury's second note to Sir Julian Pauncefote.
setting forth The English claims to the territory.
The full text OF the dispatch was printed in The
CONGRESSIONAL Record" and is reproduced. Ii
is as follows:
Foreign Office Nov 26 1926.
Sir: In my preceding dispatch of to-day's date
have replied only 10 the latter portion of Mr. Olncys
application OF the Monroe Doctrine to the question
of the boundary dispute between Venezuela and the
10 W the main features Of the question that The
statement of II contained in the earlier portion OF
Nj Olncys dispatch should not be left without re-
nv such a course VIII be the more cony enient be-
Cause. In consequence OF the suspension of dipo
matte relations. shall not have the opportunity OF
binary way in a dispatch addressed TO the Nenez-
uelan Government itself
Her Majesty's Government while they have never
avoided or declined argument on the subject with
the Government of Venezuela. have always held that
the question was one winch had no direct bearing
on the material interests of any other country ana
ms any detailed statement Of their case either to
the United States or to other foreign governments
.h psFHahs e Sr 1 oney Of what has
passed bears the impress OF being mainly J.; not en-
from Venezuela and gives in 'he opinion OF Her
Maiesiy's Government, An erroneous Few Of many
THE ORIGIN OF THE DISPUTE.
Mr. Olney commences his observations by remark
-r that '.;he dispute Of ancient date and began
a, least as early The time when Great Britain ac-
oured by the treaty with she Netherlands in 1914
me establishments Of DemeTaIa. Essequoo and
Berbice From that time 20 the present the divd-
lng Inc between these establishments now clilcd
British Guiana and Nenezueia has never ceased 70
he subject Of contention.
dispute on the subject o. the frontier ala no. IN
fact commence I'll aftei the yea iS4o - amos
ton : derived in the first place from conquest and
Both this occasion ana AZ the time OF pre-
vious occupation of those settlements in l'ol the
British authorities marked the western boundary OF
their possessions beginning some distance up the
T nc n, cIaned and actmaily ned by the Dutch
ca.mei by Great Brtan The deiini;ivc cession of
the Dutch settlements 20 England was. as Mr. Omel
states. paced on record Oy the treaty oi lSll anu
although the spanish Government were parties 10
,he negotiations which lea TO that treaty. they did
ot a; any stage OF them raise objection 10 the from
'ers claimed 10y Great Britain, though these were
perfectly vel known TO them ~ that time the
0y the United States, though The province was,
already IN revolt against the Spanish Government:
frontier was raised with Great Britain either by
D.. by the Government OF the United states Of 60
Government indeed on repeated occasions acknow-'
.ised ~ indebtedness TO Great Britain ior hei
Venezuela assumed a separate existence its Govern
re.. Was equally warm in lis expressions Of graft
iuds and friendship. ana there was moi at the time
~ indication Of an Intention to raise such claims
r have been urged b. il during the latter portion
tnie century.
EARLY VENEZUELAN CLAIMS.
Il is true. as stated by Mr.. Olney. that in the
venezuelan Constitution of 1920 Article lays down
that The territory OF Venezuela comprises ali that
~hicn previously TO the political changes OF 1910
was 5enominated the Cap,ancy General OF Ven
ezuela" Similar declarations had been made In the
fundamental laws promulgated IN 1873 ana lS2!
need not poin, mat declaration Of this
s Ra me- ya 20 force as aganst niernsiiona ar
ransements previously concluded by the nation from
which las separated itself.
i3ni the present difficulty would have arisen
y The Coyernment of Venezuela had been content
10 claim only those territories which could be
proved or even reasonably asserted TO nave Deeh
'ye jurisdiction OF the Captaincy-General OF Ven
There is no authoritative statement by the Span
which the Venezuelan Government al.ege to have
ioa Inc Province OF Guiana as bordered the south
by The amazon and on the east sic Py ine
ignores che Dutch settlements. which not oniy, eh-
istad in fact but had been formally recognized by
ihe Treaty Of Munster OF le4s and II would II now
considered valid. transfer TO Venezuela tle Whoic
enormous tract of territory belonging TO Brazil
Bur OF the territories Gained and actually occu-
them by Great Britain, there exist the most az, aH-
;hentc declarations. In 1883 and again I'm N CO.,
monstrances 10 the Court of Madrid against the
incursons Of the spanards into heir posi- ana
nossirancss they distinctly claimed all the branches
o. the Essequibo River ana especiady 'g euyI d
nanaed immediate reparation fof me proceedmgs HI
.ne ho Us Injured by them and suggested that
proper delineaton between the colony OF bssequ,-
30 and the Rio Ornoco should be laid down by au-
thority.
SPANISH AUTHORITIES.
To this claim the Spanish Government never at
tempted to make any reply Hut 1t - evident rom
;ne archives which preserved N SPAN ana 10
which by the courtesy of the Spanish HoVefhme"|
ference has been made that the Council OF state
ola no, consider that they had the means Of re-
b,tting H. and that neither they nor the Governor
of Cumana were prepared seriously 10 maintain
the claims which were suggested IN reports from
hs subordinate officer. the comma n9aht Oh G1Hr
Ministers insufficient and unsatisfactory az Pc 20
tossing 10 SHOW ne province % M the Conner Of
state as appearing from other information ~ nc
very improbable. They , 'Olm,' tbe eyidence on
which the Venezuelan Government apped' r nl1n
70 rely though 1t bc sy have pc from time to time
been produced referred 10 by mem IN ne Coo
n in 14s which ii II g to be considered as having
any present VALIDITY. would take from me GUo.i
On The continent OF North America. 49,.
The fundamental principe unoe nssm,c inJ as Spsn
was originally entitled OF right TO the "hois ol III,
,rnt which she cannot be shown to nave acknowl;
edged In positive and specific terms 10 nav p aS9sd
by wrongful usurpatio and If situated TO ,ne
north OF the Amazon and west OF the Atahsg tnon
r.cssssriv belong TO Venezuela, az her seif-coh-
s,i;uted inheritor in those regions X NAY re1 ~
Tefsr "a arhitratIon OF another Power pretensiohs
,si-sd hv ,he Government of Mexico on sicn d
iong been comprised in the Federation
sCHOMBURGK LINE.
rho circumstances connected with the marking OF
v,hat Is called the schomburgk line are as TO-
.ows: ,.
H. 1895 a grant was made by the BRUSH uU 80 he
nenf for Inc exploration Of the nleIto' pohern
British colony, and Mr.. tafterward ~ ervice
Scnomburgk who was employed on tnis ~ inv
on his return TO the capital OF the colony IL" -, Re
1899 called the attention of the Government "a