Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-14
PROTOCOLS ARE SIGNED
Allied Powers Agree as ito Method Of
Venezuelan Settlement,
BLOCKADE IS TO Be RAISED At ONCE
Representative of Powers and Um-
pire Named by Roosevelt settle
All but Preferential
Treatment.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Mr. Bowen to-
night signed with each Of the three procto-
coils providing for the immediate raising Of
the Venezuelan blockade and for the ref
erence Of the question Of preferential treat
ment to The Hague arbitration tribunal.
At II 80 Herbert Der!ng, first secretary
Of the British embassy, announced that the
British protocol had Just been signed and
that the signatures of the Italian and Ger
man protocols would follow in the order
named.
The British protocol was in English, the
italian in italian, and the German in Ger
man and English.
Protocols signed in Duplicate.
Mr.. Bowen signed in duplicate for Ven
ezuela, Sir Michael Herbert for Great Brit
ain, signor Mayor Des Planches for Italy
and Baron Won sternberg for Germany.
Immediately after the signing OF the
last protocol cables we're dispatched to
London, Berlin and Rome announcing the
fact. 1t is expected that the commanders
of the blockading feet will receive orders
within the next twenty-four hours to with.
draw their vessels.
The protocols also provide for the return
Of all Venezuelan vessels, war and mer>
chant, which have been captured by the
allied feet.
Great Britain, Germany and Italy received
advance payments Of $500 each, Great
Britain receiving its payment on the sig
nature and Germany and Italy within
thirty and sixty days from date. Germany,
in addition, will receive five monthly pay
ments until the amount paid 1t in ad-
vance aggregates $84O, 900.
AS a guaranty for the satisfaction Of
their claims Mr.. Bowen pledges the allies
a share with the other creditor nations
In 80 per cent of the custom receipts of
the two ports of La Guayra and Puerto
Cabello. This percentage will be set aside
beginning March 1 and retained in the
Venezuelan treasury until The Hague
tribunal decides whether 1t will be dis
tributed without preference between the
claimant nations, or whether Great Brit
ain, Germany and Italy shall receive prefer
entail payments.
Italy gains immediate payment OF it's
frst-class claims without further adjudica-
tion as soon as the joint commission at
Caracas has passed on the remainder of
its claims.
In round figures the adjudicated Italian
claims amount to $3.50, 0OO, from which will
be subtraeted the s27,5O to be paid sixty
0IN - ~ oAchaNaAS Va "a BAONoNOAs
The Italian ambassador also has secured
for his government the insertion Of an
agreement that Venezuela will insert in its
treaty with Italy the favored nation clause
possessed by the other nations.
Great Britain did not change It's protocol.
since II was approved by The London For
eign "a some days ago.
1t / stipulated that the claims of the
creditor nations shall be adjudicated by
Joint commissions, to consist in each In
stance of a Venezuelan, a representative
Of the claimant power and in case of q
disagreement an umpire, to be named by
the lpresidentnofo the United States. O.
The protocols in providing for reference
Of the question Of preferential treatment
to The Hague do not state in detail RI
methods of procedure by which the case
is to be laid before the tribunal. This will
be done in a second set Of protocols, the
preparation Of which will begin at once.
1t is provided, however, that not Venez.
uela alone, but all the other creditor ma
tions, shall be permitted to appear before
the tribunal in opposition to the allies de-
mand for preferential payment.
Upon the signing of the protocols to-
night congratulations we're exchanged by
the four negotiators. Mr.. Bowen ther
dispatched a brief cable message to Pres
fdent Castro, informing him Of the sigma.
ture of the protocols providing for tn,
Immediate raising Of the blockade.