The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-10-09
UNCLE SANS STAND
Over The venezuelan Question. Tie
British Must Submit to Arbi-
tration.

10 the World from Washington says
The great International question O
the hour is the Venezuelan bound
arv line dispute. Secretary oiney /
has prepared a dispatch to Ambas-
dor Bavard, which win soon bring /;
the matter to an issue. This dis
match is of a most positive and une-
ouiyocal nature. As soon as it shall
be placed before the British govern
ment it will raise an issue which |
can be settled only by the retreat OF
one or the other government. The
stand taken By the United States in
this dispute is one which involves
the oldest and most sacred traditions
OF the government-an enforcement
of the Monroe doctrine.
Secretary Olney's dispatch is in
substance a declaration in the most
positive language that the United
SIXTIES will never consent to British
occupation of the disputed territory
in Venezuela unless their nations
right thereto is first determined by
arbitration. While this declaration
is substantially the same as that
which was made some months ago
and to which the British foreign
Office replied with a statement that
Ergiand's right TO part Of the ter
ritory in question could be submit
ted to arbitration, the right to an
other part of the region in question
could not be subjected to such arbi-
tration. When Great Britain took
this ground, the question which the
president and his advisers had to de-
eide was whether the United States
was bound by the Monroe doctrine
and by her dignity to insist that all
of the territory in dispute should be
submitted to arbitration or whether
by conceding England's contention
we should virtually abandon the
field and leave Venezuela to fight it
out alone. Few more serious cues
tons have presented themselves to
al American administration within
recent years.
The decision OF the president and
his cabine; advisers, after careful
discussion and painstaking investi-
cation, IS that the bold and consist
ent policy shall be adopted and this
policy has been formulated in the
dispatch which Ambassador Bayard
will lay before the British govern
nent as soon as ne returns from his
present journey to Scotland. The
dispatch meets Enslandfs rejoinder
with a reaffirnation of the principle
of the original contention, expressed
in phrases which leave no possibili-
~ of doubt as TO the meaning or the
earnestness of the United States.
It does more. In polite, but firm
and significant words, Secretary Oh
ney declares it to be the belief of the
Emitted States government that the
territorial claims which Great Bri-
lain has set up in Venezuela are in
:he nature OF an attempt to seize ter
ritory Oh the American continent &c
which she has no legal right. The
secretary points out tow horns to the
dilemma, leaving Great Britain tC
choose which it viii accept,
l. II the quarrel with Venezuela
Is al ordinary boundary dispute
having its origin in faulty descrip.
tons, imperfect surveys or other mi.
understandings, refusal to arbitrat,
the same is contrary to the proceed
ents set by Great Britain herself ant
contrary to the practice of all civil,
lied nations.
,. If, on the other hand, "a ap.
pears to be the case and is the be.
lief Of the president of the United
States, the dispute as to the location
ef boundary line is mere dis.
Guise, under which Great Britain i
attempting by superior force TO ex
tend her territorial possessions il
America, this is directly violatiye o
the Monroe doctrine and Will neve
be submitted to by the Unite,
States.
This is the substance of the dis
match which in all nroIeabitifv will