The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-06
Mr.. NORMAN SPEAKS
London Chronicles Special Commits
siOnsr on the Venezuelan Question.
ARBITRATION Is WANTED
He Believes He Expresses the Sem
timents of the American Cow
ernment-He's Overwhelmed
With Words of Sympathy.

| London, Jan. 5.-Henry Norman, the
special commissioner of the London
Daily Chronicle, cables his paper as
follows from Washington:
The London correspondent of the
American papers having revealed my
identity here. have been overwhelmed
with expressions of sympathy and
thanks to the Chronicle for putting the
American case and opinion before the
British public. All the papers COM
ment most kindly. AS have tried to
explain. the Americans believe their
attitude of demanding arbitration is
one with which civilized men must
sympathize. In support of this the
whole union, IL needful. will speak
with absolutely one voice, but. at the
same time, there is here an Infinite de-
sire to see an immediate amicable set
tlement. / have to-day talked with
several men who are being denounced
I'm New York as jingos, and the above
are their earnest sentiments. The
people simply cannot understand Lord
Salisbury's attitude. A senator said to
me to-day he thinks the case the same
as IL millionaire quarreled with his
intimate friend because he had lost 10
cents in his house. / repeat, with
every ounce of influence possess that
everybody here worth considering de-
eires peace. If Lord Salisbury can
find a way to make the slightest ad-
vance towards recognition of the
American attitude he will be received
with wide open arms. The RESPONSE
bility of any man or minister holding
back at such a moment when England
needs every friend she has, for the
sake of mere dignity or obstinate ad-
herence to the letter of diplomacy is
appalling to contemplate
Regarding the Aberdeen dispatches
and the Schomburgk line. must ex-
plain my attitude. / assert nothing.
my means of information being OBJ
viously limited. 1 simply invite refuta-
tion of the statement that the corre-
spondence I cabled proves that Eng
land In 1S41 freely admitted the Schom-
burgk line to be destitute of any au-
thority or validity as the basis of ter
ritorial claim. The New York Evening
Post. indulging in some clever fooling
at my expense, quotes Lord Aberdeens
letter of March 30, 1874. which states
that England. by removing the bound
ary posts. did not cede any rights
which she might consider herself au-
thorized to claim In the future. Unless
better retort is possible. my position is
indeed unassailable. base my con-
tention upon the British official state
ment at the actual time the boundary
posts were removed. No ex post faoto
three years later can af-
feet this. IL England made any condi- |
ton when she ordered the practical |
Qfr1f ref
ls43 in response TO repeated arguments.
demands and the insistence of the Ven
ezuelan government, then let us have /
the official correspondence containing |
those contentious. If these cannot be |
produced. then my documents and my
hold the field.
but the question at stake is infinite
y bigger than such arguments or any
discussion of the Monroe
doctrine. The American government
md people would be perfectly willing.
md indeed glad, to see England Sc
,ure any amount of Venezuelan terri
,ory II her claim is capable of hlstori-
al and diplomatic proof They are
Wiling to meet England In any dlrec-
ion and any extent in finding a COM
'etent tribunal to determine this. They
SIX only that Lord Salisburys blunt
efusal and President Cleveland's
nenaces alike to be set aside and for
often. They regard the demand for
rbitration as the sacred right of
reat. powerful nations standing on
hat Is believed to be a matter OF prin-
iple. Now Lord Salisbury is a great
ian. He has a lifetime reputation for
rilliant foreign statesmanship. What
YER he may do. his patriotism and
ignity are beyond question. The / !
merican government and 10000. 900
eople earnestly and honestly invite
i'm to forget the past and meet their I,
ational convictions half way. II he ,
ill, the voice of every reasonable man !
4 this continent will be raised TO :
raise him. To my absolute knowledge Z
am expressing the heartfelt senti- 1
tents OF the American government"