The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-13
HE is A VETERAN.
Noted Diplomat Here In the Person
OF A. ID. White.

If the diplomatic service in the Unit
ed States was followed as a profession
as in Europe, then Andrew D. White
eX-president of Cornell, would be
among the foremost Few men in this
country have seen the amount of dip
lomatic service, and in as many varied
phases, as Mr.. White In 1879 he was
appointed as minister to Germany, to
succeed Bayard Taylor, and subse-
quently he was sent on the
same mission to st. Petersburg
When the Venezuelan trouble arose
he was appointed as one of the
commission to investigate the boun-
dairy, and, if possible, to arrive at the
correct situation. Mr.. White has served
in other capacities; in fact his entire
life has been spent in diplomatic cir
cles AS president of Cornell he start
ed that institution on the broad high
way to success and was in perfect
accord with Ezra Cornell in that be-
nevOlent gentleman's advanced idea OF
education.
An arrangement with the Wisconsin
Historical society to make an address
before that body was taken advantage
of by some of the Cornell alumni in
the city to bring the ex-president of
their alma mater to Minneapolis. He
arrived yesterday, and is the guest OF
President Cyrus Northrop. The day
was spent in receiving callers, OF
whom there were many. The alumni
of Cornell managed to pay their re-
spects during the day, while many
friends and acquaintance and several
leading citizens also called. 1t being
holiday at the university and among
the city schools. the professors and
teachers also called
Asked as to the present situation
IN connection with the Venezuelan
question Mr.. White said:
The commission has been steadily at work
more than a year. 1t has examined a very
great mass of books, maps and documents
selecting from the material what was really
OF use IN reaching right decision. We will
shortly publish report containing the results
OF our labors. In addition to what we have
done ourselves we have employed number
or experts, especially in the archives at The
Hague in Holland, at the record office in Lon
don, and in the records of the great South
American missions at Rome 1t was original
ly intended that we should ourselves report a
true divisional line between what belongs to
venezuela. This we could now do easily, for
the whole commission are probably agreed
upon virtually the same line separating the
domlnlons Of the two governments, but such
report as this on the exact line would now
be superhuous, and possibly injurious to the
proper relations between the United States
and Great Britain. The commission will
therefore conf1ne its efforts to a report of the
facts it has discovered, submitting a series
of maps, and vast amount of material care
fully sifted, and turn this over to the arbitra-
ton tribunal thus saving them a great deal
of time, labor and expense
This morning Mr.. White will make
an address to the students at the uni :
versity, and President Northrop has
invited every one who wishes to hear
Mr.. White to be present. The time is
1870 o'clock, and the subject will be
Evolution VS.. Revolution in Politics"
This evening a public address will be
made at the Church of the Redeemer
by Mr.. White, the subject being The
Diplomatic Service of the United
States" Tomorrow he will occupy the
pulpit at Plymouth church, speaking
on THE Problem of High Crime in the
United States