The record-union., 1896-12-27
Thought They Return With the Proto-
col Approved by Crespo.
No Truth in the Alleged Disagreement
of the Government to the Proposed
Convention Unless Given Direct
Representation - Belief That the
rlinister is Empowered to at Once
Negotiate With Great Britain in Its
Ratification i'm Its Present Form.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26-Senor Jose
Andrade, Venezuelan Minister to the
United States, and Judge Storrow of
Boston, counsel of the Venezuelan Co..
ernment before the Boundary Commits
sion, who went to Venezuela month or
SO ago with the protocol Venezuelan
agreement for the settlement of the
boundary dispute between England and
Venezuela, and to secure it's ratifica-
tion by President Crespo and the Vene-
zuelan Congress, returned to this coun-
try to-day on the steamship Caracas
They We're met on their arrival in
Brooklyn by the Venezuelan Consul
General and an attache of the Legation
at Washington. They left shortly after
their arrival for the National Capital
While both Minister Andrade and Mr..
StorroW refused to make any definite
statement, it was gathered that the Min
lister returns with the protocol approved
by President Crespo, and that he is
ready to negotiate its ratification with
Great Britain. AS to the alleged disa
greement of Venezuela to the conven-
ton unless given direct representation
and to the fifty-year clause, it was eX-
planned that this did not arise from the
Government, but from few sensational
and irresponsible newspapers which
We're clearly ignorant of the true mean
ing Of the document. When the agree
ment was fully understood by the pao-
pie the most able men of Venezuela pub
licly advocated it and advised its un-
qualified approval.
Then there was a change of sentiment
and a wave of applause swept through
the country. 1t was the general senti-
ment that in the United States they
had a friend at whose hands they would
lose nothing.
Minister Andrade seemed very happy
when he stepped from the steamship to-
day. To a reporter of the United Asso-
ciated Presses he said: Il have written
and telegraphed all / have to say, and
it has been published in America. / can
not say anything more on the question
just now"
1T is said you come here empowered
by President Crespo to sign the treaty
on behalf of Venezuela" said the re-
porter.
THAT is a matter I cannot with pro-
priety discuss" he replied.
do you anticipate any objection from
the Venezuelan Congress when it meets
in February to receive the treaty.
"As to that I will answer that I do
not" he replied smilingly.
Senior Andrade then handed the re-
porter a clipping from a Caracas news
paper, which. he said, represented the
ideas and views of the people of his
country. 1t said:
I'm the matter of the boundary agree
ment, the unwarranted attacks upon the
Government are based on no solid ar
guments, and we are surprised to see
such rumors set afloat after every
thing concerning the boundary ques
ton has been settled satisfactorily. The
United States has been the friend and
representative of Venezuela. To put it
exactly, Venezuela, through its friend,
the United States, negotiated the treaty.
1t is in all essential parts the same
treaty as Venezuela offered to Great Bri-
tain forty years ago, and which Great
Britain refused. Under the fifty-year
Britai will have are the settlements be-
tween the Essequibo and Pomaroon
Rivers. The ffty-year clause will eX-
clude Great Britain from the Orinoco
country and the Cuyuni River, which is
the portion of the country Venezuela
is especially desirous of keeping"
Mr.. Storrow was not inclined to dis
crss the treaty THE three papers," he
said. went off half-cocked and wrote
articles against the treaty. Public men,
jurists and diplomats wrote intelligent
articles of the agreement in the news
papers, and after a While the people
understood it clearly. and opinion quick
ly changed 1t was commended gener-
ally before we left the country, two ex-
Ministers to Great Britain being among
it's advocates The feeling in the coup
try is very friendly toward the United
States President Crespo is especially
cordial toward the United States. He
is a man of powerful influence in his
country and he is very popular. His
influence would alone go a great way to-
ward securing the adoption of the agree
ment. He received a very courteous
letter from President Cleveland which
moved him greatly. He wrote a reply
in the same strain. AS to the stories
OF a possible revolution in the country,
they are simply nonsense. If any such
outbreak had been likely TO occur I GER
tainly would not have left
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