Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-12-21
ASPHALT TRUST AGAIN
BEHIND REVOLUTION
DEPORTATION THAT CONSrIRED
WITH MATOS IN 1901 Is SAID
no BIZ AIDING LATEST AT.
TEMPT 10 OVERTHROW VEN
EzUEL1N GOVERNMENT.

Dispatches from Washington IN
o4,e tina; Asphalt Trust is. fer
I - on peAihd rNvO.ution-
I 2tt, -. 0 overthrow he exist
cove nMCat 4 Ven zuela. It's
T. at;von' As n 1901. when ac-
,~.1i1g {. ne estimony o! the trust
{ a.5rs ,cur years later, It donated
$4,000 70 Manuel A. Matos, the
ryYo utioAaly leader.
4 dispatch TO ono of the New York
lpers sa hat Shipments OF arms
aud nlunI..".s of war, from the
pited = ,es 20 the revolutionists
. ( already under way" and that
'~ b. roNo!u. on seam. to have am
iEanc al support The same
patch says that the first reports
{ revolutionary movements in Ven
S..aia can hard upon the heels"
4 rUmo,s lat the asphalt trust
locked .UIward 20 an early settle
@ en- OF It's case.
The facts Jf the asphalt revO,u-
ton" OF 1907 came out in 1905.
when Gen. Avery ID. Andrews and
on er oli!c1"s OF the trust testified
in tie suit brought by the govern
mt of Venezuela. Gen. Andrews
to- IL d that Cen. Matos, bearing a
I,;-r Of n-IOduction from the New
York an Bermudez company's
agent in C".acas, called at the Of
Tee Of the company, at No II Broad
way, New York, il July, 1901. some
seven months before Matos began
host .tlities IL Venezuela. On this
V.s-t Matos Explained to ;he officers
O. the company his chances of sue
c. and proposed that the company
should supply the necessary funds
c n. Andrews said
The C.---rs OF the National AS
o. 1t orp2uy, therefore. decide 4
l. give & en- Matos the amour.
which he asked, name 100000.
II-fher sums amounting TO $4,000
a. tod were paid to GeRSral Ma
t., soou after the frs, payment OF
100000
The president of the National AS
plat company stated:
When i eturned from Europe N
October 1901, l was surprised TO
learn that during my absence he
OIL er officers had decided to supper;
MaIos in his contest with Castro. /
told them that wha; they had done
was not acting in good faith with
t. state department, which up TO
that tine largely on representation
made by NE to Secretary Hay, ha 1
supported The Bermudez Company.
'''i then It Won d not accompli.b
a good ,,uit, cor, in ny opinion
's ooU. succecl and it
VIC "a t-iy oeopme ELown
q The --~ pany uad aided him.
an tlio WVIi weaken its position
be ere Il We ,zuelan government.
Tlc Dc.1uucz company ~.as found
gu t.. in all the Venezue an cosrts
BE- .re T.i.r the case was tried. o:
consYiring overthrow the govern
IN -,t. 1t b- expelled from the
country ar as ordered 10 pay a
f1nc in 20. g.! compensation for tae
10 OF l.fr and property which :ts
re ,olut'.- I'd caused. After tina
II eLica,Creu to persuade the Unit
&c states government 10 interfere
Ia behalf At the last session OF
eongress, however, the senate con-
mi ee on 70 81 re'atlons decline
&c recortncu4 any acton against
F"nezu.ls, on the ground tina. the
tTIrt lad o.ti. " itself by a,tempt
ins 10 overthrow a government with
which tho nited States was at peL.e
President Roosevelt ie understood
to Lave rel erked that the Asphalt
TT St id not come to the govern
n . With clean hands"
A'tr IT'S demands were turned
dc ~ the yanate committee, the
Asphalt ,oa alton suddenly csas a
It 0rsr 7e alton fit. campaig..
Of Gu ati-n. and little has been
heat Of .r. -c.iriuos in the last
T." months. Now there are ruomrs
Or rrvo utou in Venezuela. and .he
TeFolutor'0ts are sad to have aa-
p.' 'ianc b., support" Iu view Of
th. .story Of the Venezuelan cas-.
it not surprising that all toe
~ ss az % the 2 YER OF this an
pI I'r|. "4Irft pa.n. in the