St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-12
IS At OUR DISp0SAL
TEXT OFF CORRESPONDENCE BE-
TWEEN MIR. BAYARD AND
LORD SALISBURY
e5-s = as-SF ~ = AFs -
ANENT VENEZUELA PROOFS.
ENGLAND CHEERFULLY WILL
PLACE EVIDENCE BEFORE OUR
COMMISSION.
AS EVIDENCE OF GOOD WILL,
Is Granted by Great. Brit
ain.

LONDON, Feb. 12.-The Times this
morning publishes Ambassador Bay
ards request OF the British govern
ment for information on Venezuelan
affairs, which was referred to by Mr..
Balfour in his speech in the house Of
commons yesterday. The Times says
of it:
ut is very different from the tone Of
President Clevelands message The
speeches in both houses Of parliament
are a substantial proof Of the earnest
desire Of the English people to main
tain cordial relations with America"
An editorial in the Standard, ex-
presses the similar view that Lord
Rosebery's and Sir William Vernon
Harcourt's admirably conceived ex-
pressions will allay whatever remains
Of ruff1ed sentiment in America in re-
gard to the Monroe doctrine
The Times says that parliament
tary paper was issued last night con-
tanning the diplomatic correspondence
between England and America since
1887, respecting the boundary question
between Venezuela and British Guiana,
which shows that the successive Brit
ish governments have taken up the
same position described a year ago by
the Earl of Kimberley, then the Sec
retary Of state for foreign affairs in
the Rosebery cabinet, in the following
words:
Her Majesty's government has con-
sistently declined and still declines to
submit to arbitration the question of
the right to territory long settled and
governed as part of a British colony,
nor are they now prepared to accept
,;-1
visional boundary proclaimed in 1886.
On the other hand they have offered
to concede Venezuela without arbitra-
ton large portion Of the territory
comprised in their extreme claim and
they are ready to go to arbitration
respecting an intermediate zone, as to
the exact limit Of which they would be
prepared to accept modification, hav-
ing proper regard to natural boun-
daries"
The Times then continues: after
the we'll known dispatches of Secretary
Olney and Lord Salisbury (which were
submitted with President Cleveland's
Venezuelan message to congress) the
correspondence ends with the following
letters interchanged In February:
THE. LETTERS
Bayard to Salisbury. Dated Feb. 3-My
1 am instructed by the secretary of state to
make known to your lordship that the COM
mission to investigate and report upon the
true divisional line between the republic of
Venezuela and British Guinea has, under the
authority of congress, been appointed by the
president, which commission is now in ses-
sion at Washington, and has chosen Justice
Brewer as its president. Through its presi-
dent this commission has suggested to the
secretary of state that, being distinctly and
in no view an arbitratal tribunal, but having
its duty limited to a diIHgent and careful
ascertainment of the facts touching the terri
tory referred to and in the dispute for the
information of the president it would be
grateful for such assistance to that end as
could be obtained by the friendly co-opera-
ton and aid of the governments of Great
Britain and Venezuela. Wherefore 1 beg
leave to make application to your lordship
that, If entirely consistent with your sense
of international propriety,. the commission
may be furnished with such documentary
proof, historical narrative, unpublished ar
chives or other evidence as may be within
the power of her majestys government, as
well as for any facilities which may be con-