Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-11
FIRST-CLASS MAN WAN TED
The Venezuelan Commission Will Meet To- day-ItS Work Will Last for
 Three Months

Washington. Jan. 9.-The Venezuelan
 commission will meet at the state depart
 ment Saturday morning. when all the members will be present according to
 their intentions, as signified to Justice
 Brewer, president of the body. In all
 probability the commission will remain
 in Washington several days selecting
 permanent place of meeting, for which d
 building distant from any government offices will be secured if possible. The commission is also expected at it's next session to request the state department to furnish 1t with evidence, both docu- mentary and graphic, which will require the commissions consideration Tn as- ccrtaining the true divisional line in the disputed territory. The Venezuelan eVi- dence still remains in Caracas and can not reach here for at least ten days alter the state department makes formal e. quest for its presentation. It Is eNceed-
 nely volumnous, including every note In the long correspondence between Nene-
 zuela and Great Britain and the United States on the subject, as well as certified copies of all the old documents in Dutch and Spanish archives, which exhaustive researches have shown to have connec- tion with the possessions and claims of those countries in South America before the British colonistS appeared. Fac Sim- iles of numerous maps are included, as well as many originals owned by Amer jeans. Considerable satisfaction is eX-
 pressed today with the authorized an lsnouncement that all the British papers in the case are being prepared Tor pre- sentation to parliament at It's meeting in February next thus ensuring the pre- sentation of the British case before the commission in an official shape though
 roundabout channel, for Am'assador
 Bayard will be enabled to send the OIL
 cial blue book of the case to the depart
 ment here or Sir Julian Pauncctote Will
 furnish d copy to Secretary Olney. It IS
 inc oninion of those most directly con
 ccrned in the commission that it's labors
 will not be completed within three
 months. ,
 The principal problem of immediate importance to the commission IS the se
 lection of proper assistants. several or
 the members have been inundated with applications for clerical positions many of those desiring employment Delne hiBh- ly indorsed by influential men: me coi.l-
 mssioners anticipate little dlincuity III finding skilled translators. stenographefS' reference and record clerks, or assistahce of that character, but they have deter mined to secure as an executive oHicef d man wha-wsii add dignity to the commls- sion itself man of recognized aoi'ity with some international repute, possess ing linguistic attachments of high or der who will stand between the commits sion and exterior influence of all kinds, and enable the five men chosen Dy the president to devote their energies ex- cusively to the judicial consideration of the boundary contention. The collection, classified ton and presentation of the evi- dence control of clerical staff and the commissions expenses are to be rele- gated to such an officer when found. and the commission will depend upon him to relieve them of all matters that might distract their attention from the duty devolvng upon them. The merits of sev- eral men living in various parts Of the country have already been canvassed In this connection, but the appointment will not be announced until the whole field of available men has been thoroughly searched