Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-30
VENEZUELA
Will Send Commission TO this COun-
try to Formally Thank the PreSi-
dent, Congress and the American
People.

Washington, u. e., December %
General large User, special comm.S-
s.oner TO the United States from Vene-
zue.a, is here with his family. General
USier who IS commander OF one Of the
five army corps of Venezuela, was ap-
pointed a comm. .ssioner TO come to the
United States and watch the negOtia-
tons with Great Britain regarding the
boundary dispute.
President Crespo will, General Usler
says, as soon as President Cleveland an
nOunceS the Venezuelan commission,
appoint commission Of five CT the most
representative citizens OF the South
American republic to come to the United
States and convey to President Cleve-
land, the Congress and the country the
thanks and appreciation for the good
VIII shown by the United States gov
ernment in its announcement of the in
tention to fearlessly enforce the Monroe
doctrine.
This commission has not yet been APP
pointed, though the gentlemen who VIII
serve on il have been notified
REAL DANGER" AHEAD.
London. December 30.-The New
York correspondent of the Times,
while he re-affirms his previous con-
victions that there is no longer any
feeling for war with England at pres
ent in the United States. says there
lies a real danger for the future. He
attributes this partly to the personal
character of the President or that
quality of ii (which his friends call
firmness and his enemies stubborn
ness"
The dispatch also enlarges at con-
siderable length upon the evidence
brought out by the recent Venezuelan
incident of the existence of hostility
toward Great Britain in the United
States. He urges the Importance of
celerity in effecting a compromise of
the questions in dispute, quoting the
text "agree with thine adversary
quickly while he is in the way"
TIE LONDON STANDARDS IDEAS.
London, December 30-The Chronicle
publishes a mass Of matter on the Ven
ezuelan affair, including maps in pos
session of the colonial Office, extracts
from the American papers which have
arrived by mail. and an article by Fred
erick Harrison declaring that the Vene-
zuelan claim is on all fours with the
Spanish claim to Gibraltar
IF the United States can persuade
Venezuela to submit 70 a bona fide
boundary settlement" the writer con>
tinues, and to drop her swagger about
Charles v, and Philip II. of Spain, and
can enforce an award when 1t is made.
the question could be settled in a month.
The Brussels delegate to the Venezue-
Ian government, Velos Goiticoa, re-
Gently visited the Hague and exhausted
every channel without success in sup
port of the Venezuelan claim. Five
years ago the British vice consul at
Ciudad Bolivar examined the Spanish
records and proved the British aspect
Of the case completely"
AS TO RUSSIA.
London, December 30.-The Berlin
correspondent Of the Standard says:
Il have excellent reason to state that
the reports of an agreement between
Russia and the United States about
Venezuela are unf0unded. On the con-
trary. the Car was painfully surprised
at President Cleveland's message, and
any war involving England would be
unwelcome TO the Russian Court on the
approach Of the coronation"