The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-12
CASTRO NOT
 YET BLUFFED American Army and Navy C.si't Brighten Him. C,A. BARRA'S STATEMEN :! sN0 Arbitration for Venezuela President. Asphalt and Olcott Cases VII nl l Handled Just as He Says, Uncle
 sam's Wishes to Contrary
 Notwithstanding.
<. BARRA'S STATEMEN

Caracas, Venezuela, April 2.--(fy 1r~e spondence of the Associated Prc. s. President Castro will not withdra@ tAs New York and Bermuda Asphalt { }ri- pany case from the Venezuela cclsls, and will not resubmit the Olcott ease to arbitration if the whole Amer ,a army and navy come to Venezue
 This emphatic statement of Ger. Ai7- jandero Barra. the Venezuelan Sec retary of Foreign Affairs, reffec ts tte spirit of the reply which Pro siicrl Castro made to the recent propesai os the American State Department f0l shC arbitration of the Bermudez and Caentt cases.
 It was generally rumored throagh~ out Venezuela that the demand fEs United States was little less il ar ultimatum to General Castro, tsa reply of Castro was awaited W - terest. Predictions of intervention fol- lowing the refusal of Castro to yield were freely made and there was much uneasiness when it was announced that the Venezuelan Government had not only refused the demand to arbitrate the case, but had supplemented It's re- fusal with the request that the United States declare whether it has any re- spect to the sovereignty and the courts of Venezuela.
 Nearly two weeks have passed since Castro made his reply and as no action | has been taken by the United States and no further demands have been | made, the last demand of the United States has gone the way of many pre- vious requests for arbitration, and the incident is practically closed as far as | its discussion in Caracas Is concerned The Olcott case, the arbitration of which the United States seeks to have re-opened Is also known as the orin- oco Steamship Company case. and was | arbitrated by a mixed commission In 1903 Commissioners Bainbridge and Grfsanti, representing the United States and Venezuela, respectively. disagreed and the umpire, Henry Barge, decided the case allowing the company $2s,zzS on a claim of $1.401.56S The greater part of this claim was based on dam lages alleged to have been suffered whil' the Orinoco Shipping and Trading com. 1 many, an English corporation, owneo the husIness to which the Orinoce Steamship Company subsequently, sue ceeded.
 Could Not Transfer.
 Tn the arbitration, the point was rais' l ed that the English company coulo ho' transfer It's claim to an American cor poration, and thus have them near' before an American tribunal ine utll | nire Mir. Barge, refused to consider th' clains which had arisen while the com 1 norv was owned by British capital ane save his decision merely on the claims of the corporation while under Amerl can ownership. s,,,.or,
 President Castro and his adVlseri claim that to reopen the case Woulo he an insult to Holland as MT. Barge who acted as umpire. Is well knowr hutch diplomat. They also hold tha Venezuela was denied the right to nave the arbitration of the Belgian water works case reopened, none Of the otnel cases settled under the Washlngtof nrotocol shall be reconsidered. It Il emphaticaily denied in the reply ol President Castro that there are any claims pending between the OnlteC states and Venezuela. He again relt crates that the New York and Ser yn,Ida asphalt case now in the Vene zuelan courts is a national and not ar international one.
 president Castro and the members of his Cabinet take the ground tha' while the Government stands for thu general principle of arbitration 1t VII not have a case wrested from It's courts to be carried before a board of aroi | tration.
 The charges that Venezuela IS no having its obligations to creditor na lions under the Washington protocols are denied by administration officials.