The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-04
SAVANNAH GA, SATURDAY, JANUARY f. 1885,

saying that any further British commu-
nlcatiOns TO the Venezuelan government
viii be referred to Washington before
they are answered.
London, Jan. s.-The Pail Mall Gazette
says it has no reason TO doubt that the
dispatches which the Daily Chronicle
quotes containing the official unpublished
correspondence exchanged by Great Brit
ain and Venezuela between November
$50, when Sir Robert SchOmburgk was
appointed to delimit the frontier of British
Gulana, ana April, 1872 when England re-
moved the boundary posts set up by
Schomburgk, are genuine. The Gazette
presumes that Secretary Oiney and Pres
ident Cleveland knew of these letters and
asks why then Secretary Olney did not
use them to refute Lord Salisbury's second
dispatch. did he" the Gazette asks,
deliberately prefer to pick a quarrel with
The st. James Gazette says: '"The Brit
ism people are not being properly treat
ed by the government when it is left
TO the enterprise of a newspaper TO dis
cover in a foreign country that unpub-
lished official correspondence, upon which
peace or war may depend, does not justify
the statements of our own foreign min
ister."
Mr.. Chamberlain, when shown at the
colonial Office a copy of the Chronicle S
accusation of cognizance on the part Of
the government of the unpublished cor
respondence, declared that the charge
was beneath contempt.
Washington. Jan. 3.-When the cabinet
assembled for its regular meeting at IL
O'Clock this morning, none of the newly
appointed members of the Venezuelan
boundary commission had called on the
President. Justice Brewer has already
paid his respects to President Cleveland
and Mr.. Olney and notified them of his
acceptance of a commissionership. Meth
er he nor his four colleagues have yet
received their commissions from the
President, but they will get them proba-
bly, tomorrow. The question of quarters
for the commission has not been determ-
ined. That it will not meet in the state
department is settled by the fact that no
rooms are to be had there, and now the
attention of Secretary Olney has been
turned to the building occupied by the
bureau of the American republics, sit
uated at the corner of Pennsylvania ave
nue. and Jackson Place. The members of
the commission will be asked for opin-
ions on shis matter and definite selection
will be deferred until their views can be
ascertained.
As the commission is not an interna-
tional, but national body, subject to no
official supervision from any other ma
ton and created solely for the purpose
of ascertaining facts desired by the Unit
ed States government, the President and
Secretary of State could properly con-
suit with the members, but this will be
avoided even if the occasion for 1t should
arise. in order that their conclusions may
be arrived at free from outside pressure.
OF course, the commission will be oblig-
ed 10 call on the Secretary of State for
information on the subject of the va
but this will be merely a necessary for
NAL proceeding, and any information that
the commission may desire from the gov
ernments of Great Britain, Holland,
Spain or Venezuela, must also be re-
quested through the state department not
only as a matter of diplomatic courtesy,
but because the commission has no rec
ognized standing with foreign powers.
Four of the five members of the COM
mission will assemble in the diplomatic
room of the state department at II o'clock
nm 1nra 10 of
having an informal talk over the work
before them. Those VINO will be present
are Justice Brewer Prof: Gilman, who
arrived in Washington from Baltimore
tonight and delivered a lecture here;
Chief Justice Alvey, who is in Hagers-
town, Md, but who will reach Wash
ington in time for the meeting, and Mr..
Coudert, who is expected from New York.
Mr.. White will be unable to be present,
and it is likely that in his absence or
ganization will be postponed. Until quar-
ters are secured the commission will
probably hold it's sessions at the resi-
dence of Justice Brewer