The herald., 1895-12-18

are determined by another branch of the
government, it is clearly proper for the
executive to leave nothing undone which
may tend to render such determination
unne ,essary."
THE AMBASSADORS INSTRUCTIONS.
Mr.. Bayard is directed to read the com.
munication to Lord Salisbury, and ask a
definite decision regarding arbitration.
The president hopes that the conclusion
will be on the side of arbitration, but if he
is disappointed, "a result not to be antici-
pated. and in his judgment calculated to
grea ly embarrass the future relations be-
tween this country and Great Britain"
He wishes TO be acquainted with the fact
at such an early date as will enable him to
lay the whole subject before congress in
his next annual message.
The British Side
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE British side
of the dispute is embodied in two notes
from Lord Salisbury to Sir Julian Paunce-
fote. Both notes are dat ed the same day.
and the former, which the ambassador is
directed to communicate to Secretary Oh
ney is OF the highest Importance, as in it
Lord -alisbury goes broadly into the Mon
roe octrine. In full. it is as follows
LORD SALISBURY TO SIR JULIAN PAUNcE-
FOTE
FOREIGN OFFICE. Nov. 20, 1895.
SIR-)n the 9Th August. tran Knitted to
Lord Cough copy Of the dispatch from
Mr.. Olney which Mr.. Bayard had left with
me that day, and of which he had read por-
tons to me. I informed him at the time
that it could not be answered until it had
been carefully considered by the law
officers of the crown. | have, therefore,
deferred replying to it until after the
recess.
l will not now deal with those portions of
it which are concerned exclusively with the
controversy that has for some time existed
between the repub ic of Vene zuela and her
majesty's government in regard to the
boundary which separates their dominions.
| take a very different view from Mr.. Olney
of various matters upon which he touches
in that part of the dispatch; but l will de-
fer for the present all observation upon it,
as it concerns matters which are not in
themselves of first rate importance, and
do not directly concern the relations be-
tween Great Britain and the Uniteh States.
The latter part, however, of the dispatch,
turning from the question of the frontiers
of Venezuela, proceeds to deal with princi-
pies of a far wider character and to adj
vance doctrines of International law which
tons whose dominions include any portion
of the western hemisphere.
oLNEY'S CONTENTION.
The contentious set forth by Mr.. Olney
in this part of his dispatch are represented
by him as being an application of the
political maxims which are we'll known in
American discussion under the name of
the Monroe doctrine. AS far as l am
aware, this doctrine has never been before
advanced on behalf of the United States
in any written communication addressed
to the government of another nation, but
1t has been generally adopted and assumed
as true by many eminent writer's and poll
ticians in the United States. 1t is said to
have largely influenced the govern
ment of that country in the conduct of
its foreign affairs: though Mr.. Clayton,
who was secretary of state under President
Taylor, expressly stated that that admins
tration had in no way adopted it. But du-
ring the period that has elapsed since the
message Of President Monroe was deliver
ed in 1924, the doc rine has undergone a
very notable development and the aspect
which IT now presents in the hands of Mr..
Olney differs widely from its character
when it first issued from the pen of its
author.
THE ORIGINAL PROPOSITIONS.
The two propositions, which in effect
President Monroe laid down, we're, first,
that America was no longer to be looked