The Forrest City times., 1896-01-24
TUE moNRoE DoCTRIaE.

,v.su1SGToN, Jan. 22.-The cable
 o,,ncement that Lord Salisbury's
 note presented to the government of
 nts Janeiro demanded that Brazil
 Iho,ld accept arbitration to decide the
 snorship of the island of Trinidad
 Ssfore February 12, in default of
 rhicb the island should be considered
 ~ belong to Great Britain without
 s,rther appeal, has caused serious l .oroment here, which has not been
 S;ninished by the further statement .hot Brazil had definitely refused the .,onosition and had demanded that 1 Ereat Britain should immediately re- 1 s,o-e the island to Brazilian control; nor has the situation been rendered Iess acute by the intelligence conveyed
 in United Press cablegram from i ppenos Ayres announcing that the 1 Aroentine government had cancelled the English Cable Co., concession and had made common cause with Brazil Minister Mendonca, of Brazil, spent l half an hour by special appointment with Secretary Olney at the state de- nartment yesterday afternoon, and it is suspected that the interview related to the decisive stand Brazil had taken in regard to Lord Salisbury's note. The Brazilian view of the matter is that to expect them to arbitrate the ownership of Trinidad would be as un- reasonable as to ask the United States to arbitrate the possession of Block Island if England should suddenly oc- eupy it on the ground that the United States had not hithereto made good use of it. Or, as another example that the United States would tamely submit to England's esta blishing a colony on an uninhabited Florida key under the British flag because it was a desirable cable station and fit for nothing else.
 A naval officer who is intrusted with the duty of keeping account of tn. submarine cables of the world, ex pained the Buenos Ayres dispatche, yesterday as follows:
 'An English company holds an ex elusive concession for coastwise ca. bles in Brazil, the concession having about twenty years more to run. Sir John Fender, the cable king, several years ago determined to secure tele- graphic connection between his great systems and the Pacific coast of South America, which is a lucrative field for telegraphic enterprises. To that end he entered into negotiations with all the South American rl h,, successful in almost every country ex- cept in Brazil, where he was antago- nized by the English company, which, under it's exclusive right, operates all the lines from the Amazon to the Rio Plata He asked Brazil for the use of the island of Trinidad as an interme- dlate station, but the English com pany in Brazil opposed this and de- feated it through the very fact that Trinidad was Brazilian and therefore included in its own absolute conces- sion
 Sir John Fender went ahead, how
 ever with his negotiations with other countries until a sufficient time had elapsed for an English war ship to go secretly to Trinidad and land there a number of Sir John Tenders employees. The English flag was raised, the cable companys operatives were left in pos
 session and the war ship steamed away
 again. The only inhabitants of Trini.
 dad to-day are Sir John Tenders men
 'aken there by the English govern
 ment.
 The concession secured from the
 Argentine government, which was
 especially favorable to that country,
 provided for the construction of ca
 "e connecting with the company's
 nan line on the African coast and
 proceeding thence to Trinidad, the
 new port of La Plata, the Falkland is-
 lands and so around to Chilli, the Ar
 sentine government giving the right
 oniy for the landing at La Plata"
 It mas been learned from member
 VI the diplomatic corps who has the
 oonndence of the South American rep
 ,esentives that Argentina's action is
 Saseo on President Cleveland's Monroe
 aoo.rine message, and is inspired by
 'ne nope that the United States will
 p1n 1pecoghize the right of Argentina to the
 aihland islands, which were forcibly
 saAeh by Great Britain, with the
 aequlescence of the United States,
 ouosequent to the Monroe doctrines
 anahclatlon. The islands were owned
 anu settled by Spain, and thus became
 p'.e oi the Buenos Ayres republic.
 nh argentina vigorously protested
 ana nnei they were seized by England,
 n Hu in proclamation declared that
 iough Argentina was unable to re-
 oon.: as .he powerful force of England, it
 so ,inued . to firmly adhere to its claim
 tory. r oA '''o