The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-07
BOWEN SPOKE UP.
Dignity of British Ambassador Was
Offended Thereby.

Washington, Feb. 6---Confrmation Of
the London dispatch of yesterday 70
the effect that Mr.. Bowen and the Brit
ish ambassador, at their interview
Monday, had a somewhat heated argu-
ment was ObtaineE here today. IN
deed il is stated that, should the char
acter Of the cablegrams that the BRIT
- ambassador has been sending 10
his government regarding the attitude
of Minister Bowen, become public, the
country would be furnished with SEN
sational diplomatic incidents.
It is the opinion of the Venezuelan
negotiators, other than the British am
bassador, that the latter is directly re-
sponsible for the abrupt breaking off
of negotiations with Mr.. Bowen. 1t is
the opinion in official circles here that
Minister Bowen has an absolute right,
acting for Venezuela, Of course, to OBJ
ject to President Roosevelts acting as
arbitrator. To do so would cause pain
to Mr.. Bowen, whose admiration for
Mr.. Roosevelt is well known, but he
feels obliged to keep well in mind the
fact that he is here, not as an Amer
lean, but as a representative of Vene-
zuela The British ambassadors con-
duct has resulted in several important
details of the momentous conference
of Monday last leaking out, and these
are now subStantiated by the other ne
gotiators present.
1t seems that when the British am
bassador, who took the lead at this
conference, had finished reading the
cablegram of Lord Lansdowne con-
tanning his last proposition for a 20
and 10 per cent division of the customs
receipts of Porto Cabello and La
Guayra between allies and the other
claimant nations respectively, Mr..
Bowen at once remarked in an en-
phatic tone that the proposition was
but another scheme to trick Venezuela
into abetting an alliance against her for
six years and probably longer. He
added that he would not consent to
any scheme for continuing the triple
alliance one day longer than he was
forced to. A diplomat stated after
wards:
at was Mr.. Bowen who exploded
the bombsheH the moment the propo-
sition was made"
Herbert's Feathers Rufied.
Charges that Great Britain was en-
deavoring secretly to continue her al
lance with Germany were resented by
the British ambassador, though he
showed no i'll feeling at the conference.
After the conference it is said he sent
a cablegram to London stating that he
was displeased with the conduct of
Mr.. Bowen and that If it were left to
him to decide he would not continue
to his conferees of the diplomatic corps
the greatest indignation that an am
bassador from the court of st. James
should be so treated.
On the other hand, both the Italian
ambassador and German minister have
taken occasion to say several times
since the Monday conference that Mr..
Bowen has treated all the negoti-
ators with uniform courtesy and sur
prising generosity throughout the ne
gotiations. and only yesterday both of
these diplomats called and expressed
thanks for his consideration of them.
Mr.. Bowen must stand UP for Vene-
zuela," it was explained. eff ne did
not, he would forfeit our respect
Another feature of the last twenty
four hours has been the receipt of an
exceedingly tart cablegram from Lord
Lansdowne at the British embassy.
The cable, il is said, went so far as
to remind the British ambassador that
he was here to obey orders.