The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-03
Pauncefote and Andrade fleet in
Washington.
AN EVENT IN HISTORY
MAGNIFICENT PEN USED TO
COMMEMORATE THE EVENT.
Sent to Senior Andrade by His
Brother, Who Will Be the Next
President of the Venezuelan
Government-Form Were
Quickly Concluded-Congratula-
tons Are in Order-The Treaty.

| tons Are in Order-The Treaty.
Washington, Feb. 1.-The Anglo
Venezuelan arbitration treaty was
signed by Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British ambassador, and Senior Jose
Andrade, the Venezuelan minister, in
the office of Secretary Olney, at the
state department, at 4:30 o'clock this
afternoon, Signalling the amicable
termination of a controversy that has
lasted nearly century as well as the
resumption of diplomatic relations be-
tween two countries which had been
suspended for ten years.
The British ambassador, accompanied
by Mr. Henry Outram Bax-Ironside,
attache of the embassy, reached the
department just before o'clock and a
few minutes later the Venezuelan min
lister appeared with Mr.. Manuel M.
Ponte, Jr., secretary of the legation,
and Mr.. James j. StorroW, the counsel
OF Venezuela, before the commission
and The arbitral tribunal.
Senior Andrade brought with him a
magnificent pen with which the i'm
portant document was subsequently
. SlSnGQ. II was SCAl " u1I1i ny 1ilo
brother, who, il is universally conceded,
will be the next president of the Vene-
zuelan government and TO whom it will
be returned as a souvenir. 1t consisted
of gold pen fastened in holder made
from an eagles quill, bearing midway
from the top a gold heart, thickly en-
crusted with diamonds. While che two
plenipotentiarieS were formally eX-
changing their credentials, the copies
of the treaty, which were printed, were
carefully compared by Mr.. BaX-lron-
side and Mr.. Cridler, chief of the
diplomatic bureau of the state depart
ment, who made all the drafts OF the
document and printed the copies.
These were in the English language,
Spanish not being used, although the
tongue of Venezuela, the only differ
ence being that in the Venezuelan copy
| that country is mentioned always first
and the British vice versa. The Brit
ish ambassador signed Julian Paunce-
fote' to both copies, Senior Andrade
following, affixed his signature, and Mr..
| Cridler affixed their respective seals.
The formalities having been quickly
completed, there was general ex-
change of congratulations which were
pressed upon Secretary Olney with par
! ticular cordiality, and before o'clock
! the negotiators had returned to their
| official residences.
The full text of the Anglo Venezuelan
treaty follows:
THE TREATY.
Her majesty, the queen of the United
| Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
/ and the United States of Venezuela,
! being DESTROYS to provide for amicable
settlement of the question which has
arisen between their respective govern
ments concerning the boundary be-
/ tween the colony of British Guiana and
| the United States of Venezuela, have
resolved to submit to arbitration the
question involved, and TO the end of
concluding a treaty for that purpose
have appointed as their respective
plenipotentiaries:
! Her Majesty, the queen of the United
Kingdom OF Great Britain and Ireland;
the Right Hon. Sir Julian Pauncefote,
a member of her majesty's most honor
a bic privy council; Knight Grand Cross
of the most honorable order of the
Bath, and of the most distinguished
order of st. Michael and st. George and
her majesty's ambassador eXtraOrdin-
airy and plenipotentiary to the United
States; and, the president of the United
States of Venezuela, Senior Jose An
drade envoy extraordinary and minis
ter plenipotentiary of Venezuela to the
United States of America
Who, having communicated to each
other their respective full powers which
were found TO be in due and proper
form, have agreed to and concluded
the following articles:
Art l. An arbitration tribunal shall
be Immediately appointed to determine
the boundary line between the colony
of British Guiana and the United States
of Venezuela.
Art. 2 The tribunal shall consist
of five jurists; two on the part of Great
in, cd nv 7a hor-c of
the judicial committee of her majesty's
privy council, namely: The Right Hon.
Baron Herschell. knight grand cross
of the most honorable order of the
Bath; and the Hon. Sir Richard Hem
Collins, knight, one of the justices of
her Britannia majesty's supreme court
of judicature; two on the part of Vene-
zuela, nominated, one by the president
of the United States of Venezuela,
namely: The Hon. Melville Weston
Fuller, chief justice of the United
States of America, and one nominated
by the justices of the supreme court
of the United States of America,
namely: The Hon. David Josiah
Brewer, a justice of the supreme court
of the United States of America; and
of fifth jurist to be selected by the
four persons so named, or, in the event
of their failure to agree within three
months from the date of the exchange
of notifications of the present treaty,
to be selected by his majesty the king
of Sweden and Norway. The jurist so
selected shall be president of the tri-
bunal.
In case of the death, absence or inca
pacity to serve of any of the four arbi-
traitors, above named, or in the event
of any such arbitrator emitting or de-
Ginning or ceaSing to act as such, an
other jurist of repute shall be forthwith
substituted in his place; if such va
cancy shall occur among those APP
pointed by the members for the time
being OF the judicial committee of her
majesty's privy council, acting by
majority, and if among those named on
the part of Venezuela he shall be ap-
pointed by the justices of the supreme
court of the United States, acting by
a majority. If such vacancy shall oc-
cur in the case of the fifth arbitrator |
a substitute shall be selected in the |
manner herein provided for with re-
gard to the original appointment
Art. 8. The tribunal shall investigate |
and ascertain the extent of the terri |
tories belonging to or that might law |
fully be claimed by the United Neither
lands or by the kingdom of Spain re- |
spectively at the time of the acquisition |
by Great Britain of the colony of Brit |
ish Guiana-and shall determine the |
boundary lire between the colony of |