The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-24
LOST NO TIME.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE RESUMES
HIS DIPLOMATIC FUNCTIONS.
Formal Conferences ON the Venezue-
Ian Question VIII Undoubtedly Be
Held In a Very Short Timc-The
Differences In Opinion.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-The British
ambassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote, has
lost no time after his long absence in
London, on rcsurning his diplomatic func.
tons in Washington Within "a hours OF
his return he had short interview with
the secretary OF state, after which Sir
Julian callsd al the executive mansion and
| LETT his card for the president.
i 1t was stated. authoritatively, that Sir
I Julian's call today was merely one of
courtesy, and that to some time in the
near future was left the formal confer
! ences which ii is hoped on both sides will
result in the settlement Of the Venezuelan
/ question.
Subsequent to the visit, however, Sir
Julian sent a bundle Of papers from the
| embassy TO The secretary, including the
! long sought list OF bona fide colonists who
: had settled in the disputed territory prev
ious 10 January /, 1887, together with a
description OF their holdings and the
character of improvements they had
made. The settlements constituted sub
stantaily the only point of difference be-
/ tween Lord Salisbury and Secretary
rupted the negotiations and the forthcom-
/ ing conferences are to be practically con-
fined to these points.
I Lord Salisburys proviso was that the
! boundary lire to be drawn by the proposed
arbitration of three was not TO include
as the territory of Venezuela any terri
tory which was bona fide occupied by the
subjects of Great Britain on the 1st OF
Britain any territory bona fde occupied
by Venezueians at the same date.
Secretary Olney's counter proposition of
June r. which Sir Vernon HaTcourt Suisse
quenly referred to in parliament and
commended as the solution OF the diff
Guilty, was that Lord Salisbury's proviso
should be stricken out altogether. or there
might be substituted for it the follow
ing:
provided, however. that in fixing such
line, If territory of one party be found
in the occupation of the subjects or citi-
zens of the other party. such weight and
effect shall be given to such occupation
as reason, justice the rules of inter-
national law and the equities of the par
ticular case may appear to require
It is stated that the revised suggestion
upon which Great Britain looks to
speedy conclusion OF the negotiations,
deals with plan to affirm the titles of
individuals to the property they have ac-
quired, in case the contemplated boundary
tribunal decides to change the political
dominion of the Settled districts" by
awarding the territory now occupied by
eighty. The extreme aversion which Lord
Salisbury has exhibited to a possibility
of these settlers being surrendered to the
law and domination of Venezuela, led to
the suggestion that England would CO.
operate in establishing an Independent re-
public of Guiana, comprising all of the
disputed territory The limits within
which England might consent to make an
agreement for fun arbitration, would in
c.ude a stipulation that the settlers shall
not be disturbed and that their possess
sions shall be guaranteed to them.
Secretary Oineys counter proposition
under this head is declared to be too in
definite and q specific provision of perma- |
nency is Insisted upon. The earlier sug-
gestion of England that in times of an
adverse decision of her claim she should
have the right to purchase these settled
district is stated to have been firmly
declined by Venezuela, with the concur
renee of the United States.