Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-10
DELIVERS ULTIMATUM
Venezuela is to Make Partial Cash
Payment.
ROOSEVELT MAY TAKE 4 HAND
Action May Be Taken BY United
States Executive Should the Allies
Fail to concede to Last offer-WilI
Remove Menace.

Washington, Feb. denomination
of the London dispatch Of yesterday
that Bowen and the British ambassa-
dor at their interview Monday had a
somewhat heated argument, was OBJ
tanned here today. 1t is stated that
should the character of the cablegrams
that the British ambassador has been
sending to his government regarding
the attitude of Bowen become public,
the country would be furnished with
a sensational diplomatic incident 1t
in the opinion of the Venezuelan ne
gotiators, other than the British am
bassador, that the latter is directly re-
sponsible for the abrupt breaking off
of negotiations with Bowen. 1t is
stated today that Lord Lansdowne has
sent an exceedingly tart cablegram to
the British embassy in which he re-
minds the British ambassador that he
is here to obey orders.
Bowen's Last Proposals.
The last note submitted by Minister
Bowen to the allies contains the fol
lowing prepositians:
Venezuela is to make 9 cash pay
s
the thrco blockadng powers
The h!ochading powers are to have
preferential treatment for three
months.
A number OF mixed commissions to
adjust the claims OF the blockadiag
and Misunderstanding powers Each
government interested to appoint
representative the government OF
70 ni-1t
if they are unable the king of Spain to
/ appoint the third member. Who viii
act as umpire.
A protocol is to be drafted in which
all conditions will he included and tho
blockade is TO be raised.
Tho king CT Belgium is authorized
to take charge of the custam house
at Puerto Cabello and la Guayra. and
administer the finances until aid
| claims have been paid, if Venozueia
fails to make payments as agreed.
/ Roosevelt May Interfere.
| Minister Bowen's last proposals. are
/ regarded as being SO fair that il they
! are not accepted President Roosevelt,
/ who has been careful to have nothing
1 whatever to do with the negotiations,
/
ter and intimate to the allied powers
I that the blockade has lasted about
lcng enough.
There is a decided reyulsion of feel
! ing here against Grcat Britain because
/ OF its action IN entering into an alli-
ance with Germany and italy Tor tie
purpose Of collecting its claims when
\ this course was not necessary.
why England tIcldo ESck.
There arc two causes for the IN.
\ reasonable ccndrct Of Great Britain
One is that it has lost the advantage.
it had over the other two. Tho ether
4 is due to the fact that the British pcs
pie resent the alliance between Great
Britain and Germany and the British
Il government is now trying to place it.
self in u position where it can show
/ its people that no alliance exists.
4 II the latest proposition Of Minister
4 Bowen is accepted it will not only re-
4 suit in raising the blockade, but WEI
\ terminate the alliance between Great
4 Britain. Germany and Italy and in
i any further negotiations regarding
u Venezuela all nations having claims
u against the South American republic,
i including the United States, will act
4 independently
VIII Remove j Menace.
The acceptance of Minister BQwen's
proposals will also remove a menace
which has existed against the United
States because of the danger of a vio-
lation of the Monroe doctrine, The
arrangement entered into some time
ago between France and Venezuela
by which the French republic was TO
receive Is per cent OF the customs re-
ceipts of Venezuela in payment OF
claims will not be interfered with in
the slightest degree by the proposition
!, to pay 30 per cent of the customs re-
ceipts at La Guayra and Puerto Ca.
bello to the blockading powers, and as
4 result Venezuela will be paying 43
} per cent of her entire customs to sat
: isfy the demands OF nations having
claims against her.
Herbert-Bowen Incident Closed.
London, Feb. 6.-At the foreign Of
flee here this evening it was said that
the officials regarded the Herbert
Bowen incident as closed and that
they did not consider it to be the
slightest bar to a satisfactory settle
; ment of the Venezuelan dispute. 1t
/ was added that the ambassador has
}, the complete cooperation Of his col
leagues.