The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-01-20
Big DEAL
IS PENDING
England and the United States
May Swap Islands.
1t is Thought in Washington that
When the Peace Treaty is Rati-
fled, the World will Witness Real
Estate Exchange on a Gigantic
Scale.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Jan 49, Negotiations
are going on between the United States
and Great Britain Of vast moment. If
successful, they will have more far
reaching effect, not only upon the future
of the two countries directly interested,
but upon the future of the world, than
any event since the downfall of the first
Napoleon. Nothing in diplomacy since
either the Congress of Vienna in 1916,
the triple alliance between Germany,
Austria Hungary and Italy, the dual
alliance between Russia and France, the
Congress Of Berlin in 1878, remotely ap-
proaches in Importance the influence up
on the dessinies of mankind the objects
that will be accomplished by the success
full issue of these negotiations. All these
things, even the wreck of the Napoleonic
empire, exhausted their effects in Eu-
rope. The success of the negotiations be-
tween the United and Great Britain will
be felt around the world.
49,
Singularly, the incident wherein is
found the genesis of the pending negotia-
tions is the affair which came nearer
plunging the United States and Great
Britain into war than any other
since svhe Alabama claims were settled
by the Geneva tribunal, acting under
the treaty of Washington. This was
President Cleveiand's celebrated Vene-
zuelan me7sage. This document was
dangerously near a declaration of war.
In fact so close did hostilities appear to
be that for the first time in years Con-
gress omitted to take recess during the
holiday seaJon. Happily conflict was
averted, Lord Salisbury, then as row
at the head of the British government,
curbed the irritation naturally felt by
his government at the dictatorial terms
laid down by this government, accep-
ted its suggestion Of arbitration as to the
boundary line between Venezuela and
British Guiana, and the incident was
closed without breach of the friendly re-
lations existing between the two govern
ments. Surprise was felt in Europe and
in this country at this peaceful conclu-
sion of a situation so threatening. At the
time the solution was found in the isola-
ton of Great Britain in Europe and the
Imminent prospect that il she made war
on us she would find herself at war with
some of her near neighbors, condition
she failed to contemplate with satisfac-
ton. There is no doubt but this condi-
tion was taken into consideration by
Salisbury and his advisers, as of course
was the fact that the Queen is utterly
averse to war with any Christian power.
Still these thinge failed fully to account
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