The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-12
IGNORES AGREEMENT
Germany Insists on Cash Payment Of
$4,000 or Lien on Customs.
BOWEN REFUSED OUTRIGHT
To Yield Receipts Of Any Port Prior
10 The Rague'S Decision.
las TO THE CASH PAYMENT
Germany Can GET It if Willing TO Resort
TO Such Tricks.
THE DEMAND IS IN VIOLATION
OF a Signed Agreement on the Par o
6ermany's Representative Re
nouneine the Demand.
To Yield Receipts Of Any Port Prior
10 The Hague's Decision.
5 TO THE CASH PAYMENT
Germany Can GET II if Willing to Resort
TO Such Tricks.
TIE DEMAND IS IN VIOLATION
OF a Signed Agreement on the Par OF
6ermanys Representative Re
nouncine the Demand,

WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 11.-GBR.
MANY HAS IGNORED HER PREVIOUS
AGREEMENT MADE WITH Mr.. BOWEN
By COUNT Won QUApT. HER CHARGE
D'AFFAIREs. AND HAS INSISTED on
A CASH PAYMENT OF $4,000 OR \
LIEN on TaE CUSTOMS RECEIPTS on
ONE OF THE VENEZUELAN PORTS UN-
TIL THIS is PAID.
Thls was communicated to Mr.. Bowen
tonight by Baron Won stornbcrr. the Ger
man minister Mr. Bowen Immediately In.
formed the German minister that he re-
fused to Yield the receipts OF any port prior
to The Hague's decision saying that would
be preferential treatment,
As to the cash payment OF S34oooo de
manded MIR. Bowen left that matter to tho
German minister to determine, saying to
him that II Germany can afford 10 MAKE
CONFESSION THAT IT DOES NOT
STAND BY AGREEMENTS SIGNED By
ITS DULY ACCREDITED DIPLOMATS,
he (BowcnJ is willing that they shall re.
ce!ve on the dag the protocol Is signed the
total amount asked IN the original uti-
matum. The response has been cahled to
the German foreign oface.
GREAT BRITAIN AND ITALY HAVE
RENoUNcED ANY RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE ACTION or GERMANY AND
EXPRESSED THEIR REGRET, Through
their representatives they have Informed
Mr.. Bowen that they win stand by all
agreements they have made with him and
viii not be Influenced by the action of
Germany.
Both the British and Italian protocols pro
vide foI cash payment Of 1880 aud for
tho submission Of tho question OF prefer.
euda treatment to The Hague. They con
tain Recommendations for the renewal of
all previous treaties of amlty and com
mcrcc, and tho Italian claims have been
Iladjudicnted without further arbitration
after her commission has arbitrated the
other claims.
/ With the exception Of the demand for al
Increased cash payment, the protocol Of
Germany in all essential respects will con
| form to that Of Great Britain, but Will be
somewhat more concise. All three protocols
! It Is understood, will provide for the i'm
mediate return of all vessels seized by Tho
blockadlng ships
1t IS said tho action Of Germany in ask
ing for $4,000, instead Of contenting her
self with $500, Is due 10 the mlsundcr
standing Of certain steps In the negotia
lions which had been passed on by Coun
ouadt before the arrival Of Baron Voi
Sternberg. Mr. Bowen holds that German!
il bound by the act OF its representative
In the original ultmatum addressed t.
President Castro by the British. German
and Italian governments, a cash paymcn
Of 10000 bolvars each for Great Britai
and Germany and Of $4,000 boliyHrs 70
Italy was demanded. Soon after Mr.
Bowcn's arrival In Washington, pape
was signed at the British embassy b.
the three representatives OF the allies, III
British embassy by the three representa-
tlyes OF the allies the British and Italia
ambassadors and the German charge dat
flares, Count Quadt and by Mr.. Bower
10 the cffect that the allied powers woul
accept cash payment or an adequat
guarantee for the eventual satisfaction G
their claims as condition precedent to tn
: raising of the blockade. Mr.. Bowen o
fercd 80 pcr cent Of the custom receipts {
Puerto Cabello and La Guayra as guaral
tee Of payment Of "all claims" Later
consented to give the British goyernmer
$500 cash. in consideration Of their col
teution that they desired Immediate pa
ment for outrnges committed on BIRTHS
subjects. No objection was made at IN
| 4
the German charge. The three powers q
: copied the guarantee ohrd by MY Bowc
as entirely satisfactory.
Then arose the question as to the int
probation Of "ali claims. Mr.. Bowen a
sorting that It meant the claims Of a
e nations against Venezuela. while the allie
asserted that It referred exclusively to II
claims Of Great Britain. Germany an
' italy. 1t was then decided that the que
tion OF preferential treatment be referre
. To The Hague Mr.. Bowen Informed Il
italian and German representatives that
would make 10 their governments the san
cash payment offered 20 Great Brital
and an agreement was signed by all OF Il
negotiators, accepting a sufficient guara
- tee IN lieu OF the cash payment demands
:, In the original protocols.
Last Friday night cable dispatch q
" rived from the Berlin foreign Office, I
y curing about the payment Of the $4,000
q Mr.. Bowen produced the signed agreeme
renouncing this demand The matter sin
r that time has been subject az correspon
,; enee between the Berlin foreign office NJ
D. the German minister. Won sternberg. ur
% ing Germany rot to press this matter 7
night the foreign ofhce refused TO reli