The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-10
VENEZUELA'S CASE
First Instalment of Docu-
ments Received at WASH
ington Today.
ALL OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENTS
Not Word of COmment-The
Uruan Incident Magnifed
By England.
ALL OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE

i WASHINGTON, March TO- 1895 6.-The
Venezuelan Commission formally received
the frst instalment of the Venazueisr n
| case this morning from ex-Minister
Scruggs counsel for the South American
! republic. who presented copies of the
volume upon which he has been engaged
ror the past six months, and which he
informed the Commission practically
contained all the substance of the yene<
zuelan contention, though considerable
supplementary evidence is expected from
Caracas, and will be submitted IS SOON
as it arrives. The volume, which con-
talne 440 pages and a colored man. Il
entitled, Official History Of the Dis
eussion Between Venezuela and Great
Britain on their Guiana Boundaries" ia
devoted exclusively TO the exhibition Of
ofhclal correspondence. unlike the Brit
ish Blue Book, without a e ord of com
ment or argument. divided into twelve
sectlons' each covering distinct phase
OF the negotiations since 1922
The preface of the book is the official
letter of the Palmerston Ministry of
March ~ 1910, already published in the
United Press dispatches, discrediting the
Sehomburgk line as an intended bound
ary followed by the treaty of London
Of 1914, by which the Dutcn ceded "a
Great Britain the "Cape of Go5d Hona
and the Establishment of Demarara rs
S6QuibO and Berbica'' The ma rte Of +l,a
correspondence are
|. Instructions from Secretary of For
elSn Affa1rs of ancient Columbia Of
Mnicn " zen. J;I Nsnezueia was portion in 1872.
10 insist that colonists who had crossed
Inc Essequibo should submit to Colun-
bian laws or retire to their former pos
1886 for Venezuela to establish a light
house at Point Barima
Ill III The Aberdeen negotiations, 1S41-
". h,isavowal of England,s intention
TO claim Venezuelan Guiana IN 1850.
Ea,, EIort nIo[ to 9s,s settle the dispute with
VI The first Salisbury and Granville,
vIII. Negotiations in 1SSs-1Ss4 at Car
VIII Gen. Guzmen Blanco's efforts in
London with Sir Julian Pauncefote and
Earl 70 II Granyille, 1SS4-1SS5. covering 70 pages
TX. Negotiations at Caracas, 1sss-lss7.
and 5isis, reports s @ Of Venezuelan Commission in
s,;5 and St. Resumption of relations
end negotiations between Lord Salisbury
and DR.. Pulido, 1890. regarding a mixed
bol.lhlss,oh f.llil s 10 aroltrate west of Schom-
XII; The Rosebery compromise, 1898.
e.. Alil. Negotiation with the United
asking intervention, including all the
correspondence relative to the effort of
the Pope to secure Englands consent to
arbitration in 1894
Over 200 letters and official documents
are given in full in the book arranged
N chronological sequence, very few of
them having heretofore been quoted pub
liciys
The reiteration in London Journals. an
parently with the view of distracting at
tentlon from the Venezuelan boundary
dlsputy, that negotiations are in progress
DeuWeen the British Ambassador and
the Venezuelan Minister at Washington
10 dispose of the Uruan incident has
again received an unqualified denial from
Doth diplomats concerned although it
IS conceded on all sides that at some
subsequent time, at the instance of Great
Britain compromise may be effected
through amicable mediation, which
would remove any obstacle that may
exist to the resumption of relations be-
tween the 70 countries as a preliminary
to the arb ration of the boundary dis
pute upon the lines suggested by the
United States, such arbitration to be en-
trely Independent of the high comrnis-
sion, although supplemental to its labors
The details of the Uruan incident.
which is insignificant compared with the
boundary dispute from which it is con-
sidered inseparable, have been magnified
IN England into undue prominence
through the. failure of the Government
there to make any official statement re-
gardins it. For the first time today the
Intrinsic unimportance of the affair is
made plain through correspondence NOT
made public.