The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-18
DIPLOMATS ARE ELATED.
Extracts Cabled to Representatives
of American Republics.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 1.-THE
diplomatic representatives OF American
republics in Washington were highly
elated over the Presidents message and
nearly all of them cabled copious extracts
of the document to their respective gov
ernments. Ever since the Corlnto affair
they had been somewhat Respondent over
the supposed indispostion OF the United
States to resist foreign aggression on the
American continent, but to-day they could
not find language adequate to express their
admiration for President Cleveland's
forcible utterances, particularly in regard
to the possible resort to other competitions
than those ''in the arts OF peace"
None of the American Ministers or
charges d affaires, however, consented to
speak authoritatIvely for their govern
ments in the absence of instructions, nor
would any be led into public interview
on the subject.
One who has had perhaps more xperi-
ence in the international affairs of the
United States than most of mis- colleagues
in the diplomatic corps said that while he
was gratifed 10 see that the United States
had finally taken firm stand on the Mon
roe doctrine, it would be unwise to con-
slider it established in the code Of nations,
and, although he believed European
nations would be compelled to recognize
its force hereafter, he was not by any
means sure that its effect could be made
retroactive, as its application to the Vene-
Zuelan matter certainly would be. Aside
from TINS, he hoped (and in this he be-
lievec all American republics would sup
port the United States) that England
would be forced, by war if necessary, to
give up the territory she had stolen from
Venezuela and he trusted that Congress
would authorize the executive to furnish
arms and men to drive out the 10000
squatters referred to by Lord Salisbury.
Another representative of Government
that has dispute with Great Britain, as
matter of land grabbing differing only in
degree from that of Venezuela, declared
that if the United States was sincere in
this matter and supported President Cleve-
lands suggestions for boundary commits
sion beyond England's influence, it would
result in that great desideratum, an al
lance both for peace and for war of the
most progressive American republics. The
boundary question in Alaska, he said,
could then be as quickly settled as that in
Venezuela, and the rapid encroachments
of Belize on both Mexico and Guatemala
would be terminated, and the title to the
territory Of Brazil now claimed by France
and British Guiana would be terminated.
With the bulldozing power of Great Britain
nullifed, he believed her commercial su-
premacy would disappear and that trade
,o,1II 40 nd in.
stead of east and west.
Another of the South American repre-
sentatlves was disposed, in view of the
attitude of the United States in past years
and the peculiar political conditions now
existing in this country, to await the sober
second thought of the people in regard to
the message. He thought ne should like
to hear what Senator Sherman (the new
chairman of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee) said about the readiness of the
United States to 60 to war about Vene-
zuela. where it's interests were so small
compared with what they were presumed
to be III Nicaragua and Cuba. This
opinion was that Great Britain would not
recede behind the Schomburg line in the
British Guiana claim and that the United
States would not resort to force in the at
tempt to compel her to do so. He thought,
however, that Lord Salisbury would very
promptly concede the remainder of the
Venezuelan contention, including control
of the Orinocco's mouth, and that the
United States would secure Venezuela's
acquiescence in that boundary.
Senior Andrade, the Venezuelan Minis
ter, expressed himself as thoroughly graf
fled with the recommendations of the
President and is confident that the en-
thusiasm in Venezuela when the main
points of the message are received there
will be very great. He considers as re-
markable the deep insight into the question
shown by the President, and can find no
words strong enough to commend the
mastery presentation of the facts of the
controversy by Secretary Olney. In re-
gard to the commission, Senior Andeade
believed it would be most welcome to
Venezuela, similar commission having