Evening star., 1896-11-27
THE VENEZUELA DISPUTE.

D1SfOIEs
Andrew ID. White Tells of the Com.
missions Work.
From the New York Times.
Ex-President Andrew D. White of Cornell
University, member of the Venezuelan
boundary commission, was at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel yesterday. Some have
brought his name into politics as suitable
man to be the next Secretary of State. HI
Is not seeking the appointment, and said
when a reporter asked him If there was
anything TO be said on the subject:
No; 1 simply know what 1 read in the
make his own selections for his cabinet
and will choose able men,
is Bryanism likely to appear again ir
the politics of this country?"
Il do not think it will appear in the form
1t took In the last campaign. 1 do not be-
lieve the democratic party will again be
led astray by it. If business improves ane
general prosperity comes to the country
during the next four years, the issues
raised by Bryan and his followers will moi
appear. The rise in the price of wheat, and
the drop In the price of silver toward the
close of the campaign, took away all argu
n.ent from Bryan's cause, and nothing was
left for him and his followers but to at
tempt TO arouse class feelings"
rs the work of the Venezuelan boundary
commission about completed?"
There is yet much to be done in the
minor details, such as printing and issuing
the material the commission has gathered
but the real work for which the commits.
sion was appointed is completed. In view
OF the recent turn of the affair, 1t is posi-.
BILE that the report of the commission may
not be made.
The commission has served a useful pur.
pose, because 1t has brought about the best
way to arrive at the solution of the cues.
tlon. The commission has worked steadily
important material, classified it, and got.
ten 1t into proper connection with the mat
Ter al issue.
DR. Winsor of Harvard has examined
careful report. Professor Burr of Cornell
mas worked in various libraries in this
country, at the archives in the Hague and
IN London, and has sent. from time to time
reports OF great value, enabling the COM
mission to settle some difficult points Pro.
1essor Jameson of Brown University has
studied on special subjects in the libraries
IN this country and abroad, and has sub.
mltted reports. Experts have been a,
work In the archives of the great mission
orders In Rome, especially of the Jesuits
ana franciscans, and have sent U.S. from
tlme 10 time, maps and statements showing
extensions OF Spanish missions into the dis.
pIted territory. The certified COPIES of the
most important documents bearing on the
case In the Spanish archives have been laid
before u.s. ~ 'o
4, Inc commission has prepared probably
the best map ever made Of the whole terri.
tory between the orinoco ard the Esse.
qufbo rivers. and In addition, special mans
which Will be published with the docn.
ments to the number of twenty or thirty
All or this matter will be transferred To m.
erpitration tribunal. and cannot fail to he
OF the greatest use to that body in sayine
vast deal OF trouble and great expense. n
VIII. WIN also allow that body to discharge Its
outy IN much less time than it could other
wise have done. The work therefore n,
our commission has been preliminary and
preparatory for the work of the arbitra :ion
tribunal. "'ion
The establishment of the arbitration
tribunal has been most honorable TO the
present administration, and it seems to me
wiz act as guarantee of continued peace
between the United States and Great Rrit.
am. rms second great arbitration SO clear.
points the peaceful solution of interna.
uonal difficulties that peace may be con.
sidered as permanently established between
the Two nations, no matter how difficult the
questions which may arise hereafter
Mr. White said the only question the
commission had not touched upon was thai
Of Of the fifty years occupancy of the settlers
That. he added, would have to be settled nv
expert testimony "