The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-11-15
minister ANDRADE
LEAVES FOR Rome
With Draft of Treaty In
His Pocket
THE vENEZUELANS FEEL Grateful
For Kind Offices Of the United
States
ENGLAND AND VENEZUELA
Likely to Couclude Their Treaty Before
Winter Passes
The Net Result Is Practical Coscessloa b
England
The London Spectator Voices q Diro
Fear That EVIL Results Will Follow
After Half Century
ENGLAND AND VENEZUELA
Likely to ConcIude Their Treaty Before
Winter Passes
The Net Result IL Practical Coscession h
England
The London Spectator Voices q Dire
Fear That EVIL Results Will Follow.
After Half q Century
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Associated Press specIal w,re

w WAOI11INdl YIN, NOV. l4.-Seu0f sAaS
drade. minister to the nited States from
Venezuela, has gone home. He has tax
en- with him q copy Of the treaty be-
tween Venezuela and Great Britain for
the arbitration Of the boundary dispute.
together with copy Of the agreements
signed by Secretary Olney and Sir Ju-
liam Pauncefote preliminary to the
treaty between the countries equally in
interest. Senior Andrade will urge hin
government to accept the treaty at once.
He will carry letter from Secretary
Olney, which will show the position Of
this country, and will point out to the
Venezuelan government the advantage
Of accepting the treaty and adjusting
the boundary on the lines secured by
the intervention Of the nited States.
THE CLAIM CONCEDED.
NEW YORK. Nov. 14.-Senor jose
Andrade. minister from Venezuela to
the United States, is in the city. He came
here on business and IL accompanied by
his daughter. When asked whether the
draft of the treaty of agreement with
.eIerence to the disputed territory
claimed by England had been submitted
to him, he said: mo, 1t is not strictly
correct to say that. In fact. I am not
aware that such treaty Is yet in exist
ence. In the ordinary course it will Be
submitted to my government for approv-
al The published statement that the
treaty had been drawn and was brought
here by me is not correct. Neither have
I any intention of returning to Caracas
with the treaty.
There is much concerning the nego-
tiations that I cannot speak Of, but 4
may say that Venezuela's claim is proc-
was that the dispute be referred to q
fair tribunal Lord Salisbury's annual
comment at the lord mayors banquet,
1 believe, was brought out by President
Cleveland's Arm stand and by the
knowledge that the American commis-
sion would and must render an0dverse
report"
What will be the effect of the agree
ment Of England to a clause requiring
fifty years occupancy to make q claim
to territory good?"
II think 1t will shut England out Of
the Orinoco country and the watershed
Of the Cuyuni river, and leave her littib
of the disputed territory except, per-
haps, the settlements between the Esse-
quibo and Pomaroon rivers.
"Of course, we Venezuelans feel very
grateful for the kind offices Of the Unit.
ed States, and recognize them as .
friendly act tending to uphold the Nom
roe doctrine and in the interest Of JUS
tice.
After the findings Of the tribunal are
made known, there must come a perms-
nent treaty between England and Vene-
zuela, which. I expect, will be realized
before the winter passes. OF these mat
ters, however, l am not at liberty to
speak"
ENGLISH COMMENT.
NEW YORK, Nov 1.-THE Evening
Posts copyright cablegram from Lon-
don today has review of press comment
on the Anglo-Americsn agreement on
the Venezuelan question. The most not.
able extract is one from the Spectator.
which, the dispatch says, laments the
folly of a country like the United States.
without standing army and a great
navy. putting itself into the position Of
being dragged into war whenever pet.
ulant American half-caste state chooses
to pass an insult on an European power"
The Spectator says: IF the United
States assumes suzeraintv. 1t must
guarantee decent order. Thirty or fifty
years hence Europe, pressed almost to
madness by inability to feed over
crowded peoples will want to swarm
into South America under its own flagA.
To deny them will mean an attemptto
crush the combined fleets and armies
of the continent of Europe"
GAGGLNG THE PRESS.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 14.-The
Picayune has received the following
from its staff correspondent at Havana,
under date of November 8:
The latest application Of gag lawSs
the decree by Captain General WeyleH
whereby all news dealers are compelled
to send one copy of each and every
newspaper they are going to sell to b
approved or disapproved by the censor.
In this manner all newspapers contatn-
ing reports of the war are quietly
squelched-
There is no doubt the election Of Mo-
Kinley is a source of much worry to the
Spanish government, for it Is generally
conceded that the new president Will do
something toward recognizing the in<
surgents' belligerency.
In conversation with officers high In
the Spanish army and who are close to
the Madrid government, they have pos
itively asserted to me that the home
Office has assurances from theiT minis-
ter in Washington that the Cleveland adj
ministration will not recognize the Gu
bans under any circumstances.
From one of Gen. Weyler's secretaries
I was also informed that Gen. Weyler
has issued instructions to all the cap
tains of cruisers that whenever an ex-
pedition is caught, that court-martial
is to be made on the spot and the execu-
tion to follow. in order TO avoid interna.
tional complications, such as the Com
petitor case.
In the trial of political prisoners hefo
there Is no such thing as Justice, for the
judges have to give verdict against ~