The sun., 1901-04-18
LOOMS MAKES DENIAL.
Venezuelan Minister Says He Did Not
Criticise Castro.
is SUFFERING FROM FEVER.
He Is Going Abroad For His Health
pnd Does Not Know Whether
He VIII Return to His
Southern Post.


Loomis. United States minister to Ven
ezuela, has denied in the most emphat-
ic way that he unfavorably criticised
President Castro or any of the other
officials of that country Stories to this
effect We're cahled to this country.
Mr.. Loomis has just arrived here
with Mrs. I.oomis on the Red ID line
steamer Caracas. which landed him in
Brooklyn. He left Caracas last Mon
day week on the American gunboat
Scorpion. which took him TO San Juan,
where lie boarded the steamer Caracas.
Mr.. I.oomis said he did not intend to
go to Washington until Friday; that
| his return at this time was mt his own
| request to Secretary of State Hay:
| that he did not know whether or not
he would go back to Venezuela as the
representative of this country, but that
he certainly would not within the next
| five months. He added that he was
suffering from fever and would have to
go to Carlsbad or some other German
watering place for the baths.
| Mr.. Loomis admitted that his official
relations with President Castro We're
not Of the pleasantcst. hui asserted that
whatever he did aS minister in connec-
tion with the asphalt question was
done under instructions from Wash
| ington.
| Had Opposing Ideas.
| president Castro and myself had op-
posing ideas on II number of questions"
said Mr.. Loomis. ''l'hcre was nothing
personal in our differences of opinion.
however. That charged President
Castro with being financially interest
| cd in giving asphalt or other property
along the Orinoco river to companies
| or people other than those to whom the
franchises were originally awarded is
absolutely untrue. a correspondent
| who, ! am Informed. is editor of the
| san Juan News came aboard the Cara
| cas- Just before we came away. | told
him that | had nothing To say of the
asphalt question. of General Castro or
of anything else Of Il diplomatic nature.
Judge of my feelings when read
that am quoted as saying that Presi-
dent Castro wishes to emlmrrasS the
| United States. that he has long worked
for my removal, that he had laid up
S2.o0o,ooW within two years on a salary
of S12.Wo a year and much other non
sense. The interview does not surprise
me very much. but that any sane per-
son should suppose for Il moment that
! uttered any twnddle like that is in
deed remarkable"
why have you come lomey Mr..
LOomis was asked.
Al my own request. | am to CON
suit personally with Secretary Hay up
on Venezuelan questions
'Do you think that President Castro
asked for your rccall:"
Il have no reason TO believe any
such thing"
Has this approaching conference
anything Ia do with asphalt?"
II cannot tell what ii has to do with
further than TO say it will concern the
American Venezuelan questions gen
orally. do not think that any one
question will have prior right in the
conference, if it can be called such"
! Thinks a Break Unlikely.
Is there any danger Of tile two co,In-
tries breaking off diplomatic rcla-
: tiOns:"
Not in the least IN my opinion III
fact, the talk was greatly exaggerated
all around. and there never was n
critical stage in tie affair Talk Of
war between the two countries has.
! of course. been sheer rot The asphalt
question is now in the courts or will
be. II Is simply Il question between
business men, with which the United
states has nothing to do. There could
not have been any national row over
the revocation of the Orinoco com
pany's concessions
The fact that the authorities At
Washington said that they would 70
view tile papers after tie supreme.
/ court of Venezuela finished the ease
is simply what the United States has
always done under similnr circum-
stances with South American con-
tries. In the affairs OF every country
there comes Il time when diplomacy
must play an important part III the
, settlement of questions. This il lie
, case with NeneZuca now. hut there
will he no talk Of war;
Ibid you insist to President Castro
that the New York and BprmlidpZ com.
pany's claim must be- protected?"
Il decline 20 say. Whatever | did
= did under instructions"
! rs il true that Won protested against
Venezuela paying German claims on
!, the ground tliat Venezuela had prom,
/, ised to pay American claims bcfor,
othersT
:, THAT question | will not answer"
(, where is General AndrAdr nowl'
He is said to hc secure upon the is
land of Curacao. off the Nenczurla
coast. The eX-presidcnt is quite pop
ular with the revolutionary party
General Andrade was said to he or
I ganiZing an army. hut do not believe
q it,"
Rig Military Parade For Frisco.
San Francisco April II. Genera
Warteld, who will have charge of til,
D. military escort on the day of preSidpn
2 McKinleys arrival in this city, psti
mates that there will he from loom
to 12,0O0 men in line. 1t probably viii
be one of the most imposing militar,
k affairs ever witnessed on this Goa ST
/ There will be no civic bodies in til,