The herald., 1896-12-27
Minister ANDRADE
REACHES NEW YORK
Bearing the Treaty With
England
DIPLOMATIC SILENCE PRESERVED
But the Handy Newspaper Pre-.
sentS His Views
VENEZUELA IS SATISFIED
And the People Who Kicked Went Off
HaIf.C 0cked
All That the Republic Ever Asked Has Bees
Gained
Venezuela's President Is Duly Grateful
to the United States-The Threat
ening Incident May Be Re
gard as Closed
And the People Who Kicked Went Oft
HaIf.C locked
All That the Republic Ever Asked Has Bees
Gained
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Senor Jose An
drade, Venezuelan minister to the United
States, accompanied by James j. Stor-
row, counsel for Venezuela before the
United States boundary commission, ar
rived in this city this afternoon on the
steamer Caracas and left for Washing
ton tonight.
When the steamer arrived at her pier
Minister Andrade was met by the ven-
ezuelan consul and some of the attaches
of the office. When asked concerning
the reports which have been printed in
reference to the boundary treaty being
not acceptable to the Venezuelan gov
ernment, the minister said: Il have
written and telegraphed all have to
say, and l understand 1t has been pub
lished in your papers. cannot say any
thing more on this question"
He was then asked If it was true that
he had come on empowered by President
Crespo to signify the acceptance Of the
treaty by Venezuela, and he replied:
That is matter 1 cannot discuss"
He also said there was no sign of dis
turbance in Venezuela; everything was
peaceful and he did not anticipate any
trouble when the Venezuelan congress
would meet. When pressed to say
something about the treaty. he showed
the reporters a copy of Venezuelan pa
per, which, he said expressed his views
on the matter
This newspaper, the Venezuelap Her
aid, had several articles on the treaty.
and the following is an extract from one
of them:
Minister Andrade is going to Wash
l. .Rt n
agreement. 1t Is in all essential partic-
ulars the same treaty offered by Ven-
ezuela forty years ago to Great Britain,
which Great Britain refused.
Under the fifty-year clause the only
territory which Great Britain will have
Is the settlements between the EsseQui-
bo and Pomeroon rivers. BY the nifty
years clause we exclude Great brtaln
from the Orinoco country and the Guy
uni river, which is the portion OF tho
country which Venezuela has been es-
pecially desirous of keeping.
"Unwarranted attacks have been made
on the government, but they are based
on no sound argument, and 1t surprises
us little to see such rumor concerning
the, boundary question after everything
has been settled.
1.-THE United States has been the friend
and representative of Venezuela, or.
to put it exactly, through it's friend,
the United States, Venezuela has nego-
tiated the treaty.
Mr.. Storrow was also disinclined to
talk of the boundary question, but said
the treaty was satisfactory to the Ven-
ezuelans. He said there were couple
of correspondents who attacked the
treaty in the papers. but to use his own
words ''they went off half-cocked."
When the more intelligent and better
class of people read the memoranda,
several articles were published in the
papers, two of them by former ministers
to England, the public opinion was re-
moulded. Mr.. Storrow claimed the peo-
pie are we'll satisfied with the treaty,
and consider it is about the best arrange
ment that could be made. He said
Crespo's feeling in regard to the Ameri-
can government was most kindly, and
he referred to the letter written by Pres
ident Crespo to President Cleveland,
thanking him for the interest he had
taken in the Venezuelan matter.
Mr.. Storrow said 1t was nonsense for
any person to say there was any chance
Of a revolution in Venezuela. He de-
MED there was any possibility of an
outbreak and had there been any likeli-
hood of such thing he would not have
come away.