New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-30
COLOMBIAN NEGOTIATIONS.

The Washington dispatch of July q stating that
efforts are being made to reach agreement he
tween the government of Colombia and the revou-
tionary junta in New-York confirms the nforma-
ton published in The Tribune of the 21st. A sum
mary was then given of a letter printed in Las
Novedades. of New-York and intended for General
Vargas-Santos the acknowledged chief Of the revo-
lutionary Liberal party of Coombians. The general
has answered the letter written from London by
two Colombian citizens. anxious TO termna-
tion Of the civil war which has ragged for nearly
three years i'm Colombia. The generals answer
published also in Las Novedades" does not abso-
lutey reject the idea of reconciliation with the
government of Bogota On the contrary. 1t ex-
presses warm hopes that peace should be promptly
re-established I'm the country, but II maintains
and attempts 10 prove. that the two principal
conditions of peace proposed by the Liberal revou-
tionary party not excessive unjustihable
as they said to be in the London letter 10
which General Vargas fully In an elo-
quent discussion filling more than three columns
of the Spanish-American organ. Las Novedades."
These two main conditions that the debt in
Cured abroad by the revolution shall be charged to
the national treasury of Colombia, and that gov
errors belonging the Liberal revolutionary party
should be placed at the head OF four departments
of the republic. and also that Liberal projects
should be appointed in the districts of Casanare
and San Martin General Vargas Santos refutes
the assertion of his correspondents. who pretended
that the revolution is in possession of a
single department in Colombia" He reminds them
I'm his that 1.-The territories of Cssanare and
San Martin are in our power-the Liberal revolu-
tionists-and that in Tolima. Santander and Cauca
there armed groups OF revolutionists OF no
mean Importance Moreover, a cable dispatch
Gently received has given the news of the occupa-
ton of Cartagena by the Liberal forces. In regard
TO the payment by the government of the debt in
CURED abroad by the revolutionists General
Yargas-Santos says: Concerning the foreign as
sstance received, there is nothing In that which
may compromise the honor Of the Liberal party,
and. still less, the national banner. thousand
facts in national history justify the efforts
made by the Liberal party in order TO secure to
itself the necessary means to reconquer its rights
1t is easy 10 perceive In the quiet and dignified
tone of this answer of the leader of the Colombian
Liberal revoutionists that he is inspired with the
same spirit OF Cancellation which pervades the
sentative letter 10 which he replies. and which is
also the Characteristic of the line followed by DIR.
Concha, the representative of the Bogota Govern
ment at Washington. I'm his diplomatic dealings
with General Vargas-Santos and the Liberal junta.
This absence of any bitterness and rancor in the
hearts OF the opposing parties IN the Colombian
civil war is good omen for prompt re-esta bish-
ment Of peace, which will conduce also to prompt
discussion and settlement by the Bogota Congress
OF all questions relative to tina Panama Canal.