The age-herald., 1899-06-22
ARGUMENTS IN
 BOUNDARY DISPUTE Venezuelan Commission in Session at
 Paris. BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE Resumed His Speech in Favor of Great
 BFitail'S Case.
WAS OF NO VALUE
Unless Followed Up by Occupation Detailed Exploits of the Dutch in Conjunction With Sir Walter
 Raleigh Spanish Voyages.

Paris, June 2.-The Venezuelan boundary commission re-assembled at Il o'clock this morning, and Sir Richard Webster, the British attorney-general, resumed his speech in +behalf of the case of Great Britain. Dealing with the period from 1500 to 1637, he said Great Britain was unable to rely on the Spanish or Venezuelan con- trol and was compelled to fall back on the discovery and circumnavgation, so-called, Of the unit of Guiana, Venezuela arguing that Guiana was defined area; that Spain had discovered that defined area and taken part in the name of the whole, taking pos session so as to enttle them to the whole.
 In the close details Sir Richard said the whole work of the various explorers of the period upon which Venezuela relied, claim ing they were not relevant to the terri tory of Guiana, adding with statements made before the United States commission must not be used in argument against Great Britain, as frequent deductions were made which were totally unsupported, as Justice Brewer, former member of that commission, would doubtless remember.
 Protest Az gainst Spanish Title
 According to counsel for Great Britain, the nrSL explorer WHO really TedCHSQ Guina was De Berrio, and his expedition was intended, Sir Richard added to apply to different part of the country and for different object than that alleged by Ven- ezuela, who sought to apply it to a small district. Counsel protested against its be- ing pieced on so as to establish this ''so- called Spanish title," further asserting that "it had failed mserably, as both the Dutch and Spanish historians agreed that there was one Spanish settlement on the Ornoco before 1720."
 As to the Spanish coasting voyages, Sir Richard Webster said the Spaniards occa- sionally traded but the Dutch traded and settled. By the truce of 1909 the Dutch position was known and acknowledged by Spain; and as Motley the historian, had stated, "the orange flag of the republic was to float over all America from Manhattan island to the shores of Brazil, and the straits of Magella, provided Philip had not ships and soldiers to vindicate with the sword that sovereignty which Spanish swords and genius once acquired"
 British Consurs Claims
 Continuing, the British counsel claimed that discovery, when not followed by oocu- patton, was of no value as the basis tite inasmuch as nations had never consented to the contrary doctrine. Discovery, if ac- companied by a certified or notorious in- tention to acquire, gave prior opportunity of acquiring, which opportunity it would be violation of the comity of nations to in- trefere with prematurely
 The ocupation of vacant parts of the world. treated as not in the possession of a distinct owner, was not a case of transfer of possession, for there were no parties be- tween whom such a convention could pass. Guiana was vacant. The Dutch settled and controlled it, while the Spaniards held one miserable spot on the Orinoco, which could not control the huge district lying between the Orinoco and the Essiquibo.
 Sir Richard Webster then detailed the ex- ploits of the Dutch In conjunction with Sir Walter Raleigh, bringing his argument up to the events of 1637.