The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-02
NO POLITICS IN IT
Venezuelan Commission Equal
ly Divided Politically.
ONE OF THEM A MUGWUMP
Two of Them are Democrats and
Two are Republicans
1t is a Commission Whose Decision in
the Matter Will be received With
Confidence by the Ameri-
can People.
can People.

can People.
WASHINGTON, d. C., Jan. Pres
ident Cleveland tonight announced
the appointment of the Venezuelan
boundary commission as follows:
David j. Brewer, of Kansas. JUS
tice United States Supreme Court;
Richard II. Alvey, of Maryland, Chief
Justice of the Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia ;.Andrew DWhite,
OF New York, Frederick H. Coudert, of
New York, and Daniel c. Gilman, of
Maryland.
The Commission is regarded here
among those who had an opportunity
to see the list of names after they were
made public,as a very satisfactory one,
whose opinions and conclusions will be
received by the American public with
more confidence, which the standing
of the membrs of the Commission in
the public eye inspires.
Justice Brewer is a Republican in
politics, and about So years of age. He
is n graduate of Yale, and has spent
considerable time in the practice of
his profession i'm Kansas, where he
filled a number of judicial offices. In
1884 he WAS appointed Circuit Court
Judge of the United States. for the
Eighth District, and was appointed
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court in December, 1889, by President
Harrison.
Richard H. Alvey is Democrat in
politics, and a man of marked legal
ability. 1t was the great reputation
he gained as Judge in the Maryland
courts, which led President Cleveland,
in the absence of political influence on
Judge Alvey's part, to appoint him to
the position of Chief Justice of the
Court of Appeals of this district. He
is 6S years of age.
Andrew d. White is 81 Republican in
politics. He is one of the best known
men of letters in this country, and,
perhaps.in the world; Is an authority
ON history and has been the President
of Cornell University. Mr.. White was
appointed Minister to Russia by Presi-
dent Harrison. and this position he
held through Harrisons adminlstra-
ton. and for year or more during
Mr.. Gleveland's administration.
! Frederick K. Coudert is Il Democrat
in politics and one ofethe best known
members of the barrof New York. Mr..
CoudertI WAS one of the counsel for
the United States on the Bering Sea
Commission, and in that capacity
made one Of the esmost eloquent and e.
fectiye speeches ldelivered in behalf OF
American contentious
The last named snember of the com
mission. Daniel C.$GilmaH, president
OF Johns Hopkins University, is well
known as an authority interna-
,tfonai law. He was at one time presl-
dent gof the University of California
and Was later called TO take up the
work OF the organization Of the \ m
versity OF which ne is now the head.
One offis principal acquisitions is the
mastering of the SCIENCE OF physical
geography, ne having studied in Ger
maDy under q prominent instructor
and in this country under Guyot. lie
* the Author of Il life of President
Monroe. Mr. Gilman has never figured
.pronfinently inrpolitics. At the White
House, II is stated, thathe has no poil-
tics.
The two great parties, il will be
seen are equally represented on the
commission, with the fifth member
having no outspollen politics.
All the above-named persons VIII
accept the places to which they have
been appointed, and are expected TO
ASSEMBLE in Washington as soon as
practicable with a view TO their swear
Ing III and entering upon their work
The appointments are madain compli-
ance with a resolution of Congress
passed at, the request of President
Cleveland, and the work OF the commits
sion will be to examine and collect
evidence with a view to determining
the true divisional line between Nene-
zuela and British Guiana. The conciu-
sions reached by the commission will
be reported to the President for his IN
formation in connection with any
further, approximations and communi-
cations that may he made by this Gov
ernment to Great Britain in connection
with the boundary line dispute be-
tween the latter country and Nenc-