The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-10
SALISBURY MAY BE STUBBORN.
HIS STAND As TO VENEZUELA SAID
TO BE UNCHANGED.

He is Reported to BE Determined Not
40 submit 10 Arbitration Territory
Occupied by British Subjects Who
Are Relying on british Protec-
tiOn - The American boundary
Commission 10 Meet Again To-
mOrrOw-RepOrts OF a Hostile Move
ment Denied by England.
Glasgow. Jan. s.-The Glasgow Herald
claims to have semi-oflicial authority for
the statement that Lord Salisburys atti-
tude in regard TO Venezuela is wholly un-
changed, and that upon no account will
he submit TO arbitration of territory Oc-
cupied by British subjects who are rely
ing upon Great Britain's protection. Lord
Salisbury. the Herald says, is ready to ar
bitrate all questions which the diplomatic
dispatches have admitted to be open, and
is also ready to concede any inconsidera-
Bile claims which do not involve a trans
fer of the allegiance of British subjects
New York, Jan. "a dispatch to the
Mail and Express from Caracas, Vene-
zuela, says: The newspapers of Caracas
this afternoon demand that the goevrn-
ment shall send troops to the Guiana from
tier Immediately"
London, Jan. 9.-The colonial Office has
issued note declaring that the statement
printed in a New York newspaper to-day
in an alleged cable dispatch from Caracas,
that British troops with cannon, have
arrived at Uynni, is absolutely unfounded
London, Jan. 9.-The Westminster Ca
zette publishes a report of an inverview
with Sir John Lubbock, member of parli-
he says: If the trivial Venezuelan from
tier dispute shall result in Great Britain
and the United States settling all their
disputes by arbitration where diplomacy
fails, then the disputes are a great bless
ing, but President Cleveland's gratuitous
threat of war is not calculated to pro-
mote an amicable settlement. England
only refused to arbtrate territory which
our colonists have occupied for many
years. As regards Justice Harlan's precise
proposal to submit disputes between the
United States and Great Britain to a
commission composed of an equal number
of justices of the supreme court of the
United states and of the high court of
justice of England, it should require time
TO think IL over carefully, though I cor
daily approve Of some such tribunal"
view with Henry NJ. Stanley, member OF
parliament, the explorer, in which Mr..
Stanley is reported as saying: "We shall
reach an amicable settlement of our diff
terences with America as soon as poss-
BILE; then we shall not fear Germany il
she lntefIeres with British Suzerainty in
the Transvaals."
The Times, dwelling upon the many dam
gerous clements which tend to make the
Anglo-American situation still serious, this
morning, refers to George w. Smalley's
renewed plea for the fullest and earliest
disclosure Of the English case in regard
TO the Venezuelan frontier dispute and
continues 1t is impossible not to ac-
knowledge the force of the contention, and
really If no more serious obstacle to the
course he advocates exists than the tech
ntcal' rule as to the publication of official
documents, the sooner some ingenious
method of prOpitiating the goddess of red
tape is hit upon the better. Blue books it
is whispered, may not be issued with i'm
pumty save while parliament is sitting.
Parliament will not sit for another month,
and, therefore, both America and England
must wait. Events, however, may not wait
and If events do not wait the feeling of
passion and prejudice will not wait and
we may have renewal of the crisis upon
US"
The Times asks whether or not this blue
book tradition is worth upholding at the
risk of precipitating a war from which the
two great peoples shrink with horror, and
suggests that the London Gazette be util-
lied to give the information needed. The
paper urges the ministers to accelerate
the preparation of the necessary docu-
ments and concludes it's article thus: I'VE
should, regardless of precedents, set out
our case fairly before the world. We firm
ly believe it is a good case, and that, if
produced before passion gets the upper
hand of judgment will be received in a fair
and amicable spirit. But the danger is
successfully. it must be Stemmed at once"
The Daily News will tomorrow say that
the distribution of a circular inviting au-
thorS to sign the appeal of British literary
men to the American authorities and 9TH
er writer's to do everything possible to
avert war is so strongly. reprehended
that a special meeting of the society of
authors has been convened for Jan. is to
consider the matter