Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-12
RECOGNIZES UNITED STATES
Arbitration Treaty an Effective Answer to
Lord salisbury's Words.
LONDON COMMENT ON THE AGREEMENT
Newspapers of All shades of Political
Opinion Welcome the Successful
Outcomc-Globe Fears Prccc-
dent for Monroeism.

| LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE Westminster Ga.
zette this afternoon. referring to the prac;i
cal settlement Of the Venezuelan question
by submitting it to a court OF arbitration
says: THE locus standl OF the United
States which the marquis OF Salisbury al
! first denied is now undisputed and is ac.
cepted even to the length of ruling out
Venezuela. We would much rather settle
with the United States, but we naturally look
to the United States to go bail for Venezuela
in return. To this assertion the Monroe
doctrine the most satisfactory point of all
is appended-a general arbitration agree
ment"
The st. James Gazette asks whether the
agreement will not throw into arbitration
'all the sparsely settled region between the
Schomburgk line and the settled territory Of
Guiana. which Lord Kimberley and the mar
quis OF Salisbury declared they would never
submit to arbitration and whereupon Presi-
dent Cleveland and Secretary Olney declared
they should or the United States would make
them"
1; adds: "If Great Britain does submit
this issue to arbitration it will be difficult to
dispfove the American claim that the agree
ment Is a square backdown upon the
part Of Great Britain. That the
arrangement includes a general
treaty OF dEDltTatlO0 is an lnqlSputaDle DCnC-
tit and the decision of the committee not to
report relieves President Cleveland's govern
ment OF the most serious difficulty of it's own
creation"
FUTURE DISPUTES LESS LIKELY.
The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that here
after disputes are less likely to occur now
that the principle OF dealing directly with
the little republics is set aside in favor of
negotiations with their powerful protector" ="
The Globe welcomes the agreement, be
cause 1t releases the American government
from a false and dangerous position"
Continuing, the Globe says: when the
commission reported adversely to Great
Britain 1t would have forced President Cleve-
land to attempt the coercion of Great Britain
or eat the humblest Of humble pie. No one
In this country wishes to see the develop
ment OF the United States retarded for q
half century, as it would necessarily have
done II the government at Washington had
seen fit to enter, on so trivial pretext, upon
so unequal contest. The decision Of the
commission to withhold It's report is an
situation"
The Globe then proceeds to criticlse the
composition of the tribunal and in this con-
nection refers TO the fact that Venezuela is
not represented I'm spite OF Lord Sails
burys early assertion that the question at
issue only concerned the United Kingdom
and Venezuela" and concludes: "It must
be clearly understood that this institution
OF the new tribunal OF arbitration is not to
constitute a precedent for arranging all
future disputes between the United States
and the United Kingdom in North and
south America. and that We are not ready TO
law"
The Standard. conservative. in a some
what pessimistic editorial on the Venezuelan
settlement, considers that ffty-year limit
OF occupation to insure title would displace
virtually all OF the British settlers except the
aborigines under British rule PERHAPS.
however" adds the Standard, full details
will throw a better light on the subject, and
In the last case we can appeal to history to
prove Dutch and British occupation before
Venezuela existed"