Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-08-30
FINED s15,OO0,OO0
FOR CASTRO WAR.
New York and Bermudez Asphalt Com
pany Must Pay Matos
Revolt Cost.

CARACAS, Aug. 27.-Venezuela has
assessed fine of $o,oO0,00O against the
New York and Bermudez company for
aiding the Matos revolution. commits
sion of experts is to fix other sums to be
paid by the asphalt company, which
probably will amount to 100000
more, or $15,00O,0O0 in all. The So
100000 represents the cost to Venezuela
of subduing the revolution.
The decision which was handed down
last Monday comes three years after the
beginning of the trial by the asphalt COM
pany which was announced by Judges
Juan Liscano Of the civil court Of first
instance. The Judgment is appealable to
the supreme court, and from there to the
court of cessation.
Court Decision Fixes Damage.
The court in it's decision says:
administering justice in the name Of
the republic and by authority of the
law, this complaint is declared to be we'll
founded. and in consequence the New
| York and Bermudez company Is CON
demned to pay the sum of bolivars "a
11S63S $4,000, OOO), which is the amount
of the errOgatiOns made by the national
treasury for the purpose of suppressing
the revolution, as has been proved in the
records, and also to reimburse the ma
ton, according to a just assessment by
experts for the following damages and
| injuries:
/. The discredit which, because of war.
the Venezuelan nation may have suffered in
the conception of other nations with whom
relations of an international or mercantile
order existed.
2. The loss of Venezuelan citizens with
drawn from commercial pursuits, agricul-
| tural industries, and from the activity of
the republican life because of the war
3. The necessity for the creation of a
war tax which produced $350,0O0 in 1901
and S.. SOC, 900 in 1905.
4. The decrease in the customs revenues
! was from So, 100000 in 1901. and 81 OO0,o 600
in 1902, to $3,OOO,OOO in 1903, ten years dur
| ing which the revolution led by Gen. Man
uel Antonio Mates developed it's greatest
| strength.
| 8. The decrease in the revenues of the
| states was from 100000 in 1901, to ST.,
! 100000 in 1902, and $4,000 in 1903,
| ''All of which is established by proofs
appearing in the records.
'1naSmuch as, in the judgment of this
| court, there does not seem to have been
any imprudence on the part of the de-
Tense, it is declared that there is no
! special condemnation in costs"
| Principal Proof American
1t was from American witnesses and
| from evidence taken before American
| judges in the United States courts that
| tire Venezuelan government obtained its
| lIloSI important PROOF OF the part alleged
to have been played by the asphalt COM
! pany in the Matos revolution and the
| furnishing of the money with which to
| start the fight.
| The Venezuelan asphalt case repre-
| sents some of the most strenuous efforts
! of Venezuela's strenuous ruler. President
Castro. The asphalt company in reply
! to Castro's charges claimed the Caracas
| officials tried to eXtort 100000 from it.
| The matter was the subject of much
negotiation and bitter recrmination The
! government in it's suit against the New
| York and Bermudez company asked Sill
| O0O,0 900 damages