Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-02-13
A GOOD THING.
Lords Rosebery and Salisbury
on the Monroe Doctrine.
The Former Welcomes the Interven-
tion of the United States
In the Venezuela Dlspute-salisbury Con-
ours With Rosebery and Says That the
Mingiing of the U. s. In the Matter
May Conduce to Desirable Results.

LONDON, Feb. 12.-Lord Rose berry,
in his address in the house of lords
Tuesday, said lie welcomed the inter-
vention OF the United States in the
Venezuelan matter inasmuch as it in
troduced into the question the impor-
tant element of solid, substantial
government offering to guarantee the
permanence of any settlement that
might be arrived at. lie welcomed
with infinite joy the indications in the
speech from the throne that, there had
been communications between Great
Britain and the United States
in the direction of an equitable ar
rangement Two things might be
heartily welcomed as the outcome
of the difficulty with the United States.
The first was the unbounded express
sion OF loyalty by Canada (cheers) and
the second the serious movement on
both sides in favor of permanent ma
chinery by which questions referring
to arbitration could be dealt with
without loss of dignity or impairment
OF the sovereign rights of either
(cheers)
Prime Minister Salisbury followed
Lord Rosebery. He said he concurred
with Lord Rosebery, that the min
Cling of the United States in the ven-
ezuelan question might, from some
points of view, conduce to desirable re.
suits. He did not think the invoking
of the Monroe doctrine was controverS-
ally quite unnecessary. Consider
ing the position of Venezuela in
the Caribbean sea, it was no more un-
natural that the United States should
take an interest in the matter than
that Great Britain should take in Hol-
land or Belgium, and from that point
of view he trusted that the negotia-
tionS would continue. 1t was obvi-
ously undesirable to state, at pres
ent, the conditions of the nego-
tiations but he had had an increasing
belief in the United States in the last
few weeks that although perhaps after
long negotiations, satisfactory set
tlement would be found and that all
danger of Il rupture of the relations
between the two nations would be en-
tirely removed. (Cheers). He did not
wish the house to think that
an agreement had yet been ar
rived at. He thought it rightly
relied upon the question of arbitra.
tion. The United States attached a
more unrestricted value upon the
method OF adjusting differences than
had hitherto been done in England.
lie concurred with Lord Rosebery that
The proposal which, at the will of an
arbitrator, might hand over 10000
British subjects to Venezuela could
lot be accepted; but he believed
hat means might be found, by com
oining negotiations and arbitration,
% effect settlement. The great OBJ
tacle to settlement had been the ex-
ravagant claims of Venezuela when
he treated the whole country as far
IS Essequibo as undeniably hers and
hen broke off diplomatic relations
With Great Britain. But for that he
believes the difficulty would have been
olved long ago.
He agreed that the mutual develop
nent of the desire for arbitration was
lie thought it impossible
o adopt the arbitration unless re.
tricted to subject matter and condi-
ions, but between the extremes of
anding everything to arbitration and
he former practice Of using too little,
e fully believed there was middle
erm, which would effectually dimin-
'h the chances of a conflict anent diff
erenceS of opinion (cheers.)