The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-11
AMERICAN CLAIMS
BASIS FOR DISPUTE
Asserted That South American
Republic Declines to Aibi-
tFate Them

Practically coincldent with the ar.
rival in the United States Of Mr. Jacob
sleeper, the recently rgezlled Charge
d'Anairs in Venezuela the text Of tae
correspordence that passed between
Mr.. sleeper and Senior Paul. she vene
zuela Minister OF Foreign Affairs. has
been made public Mr.. Sleepsr's very
carefully worried message of fave ,.sll
states explicitly that he abandons his
post under orders direct from WASH
ington. and IN diplomatic terms an.
nounces that the efforts begun last
winter to compel President Castro to
capltulate 10 the Asphalt Trust have
undergone no modification.
In his letter OF Withdrawal, Mr..
Sleeper says that his orders are based
upon Casros persistent refusal to
give redress for action by him by
which all American interests in this
country Cyenezuela) have been de-
stroyed or confiscated, or to submit
the claims for such redress 70 arbitra-
ton. This charge is denied at length
IN Minister Paul's reply to Mr.. Sleeper.
TIE claims set forth in Secretary
Roots communication to the senate az
Washington, March % last, were nom
nally FIVE In number, though it is the
seneral belief that If the Asphalt
Trusa was satisfied by Castro the otn-
er claims would never be heard Of
again The claims enumerated BY
MIR Root are as follows:
I The claim Of A. L. Jaurett
q The claim of the Orlnoco Corpor
alton
3. The claim Of the Orinoco Steam.
ship Company.
a. The claim Of the United States
and Venezuela Company.
O. The claim Of the New York and
Bermudez Company (the Asphalt
rrusO
To take mp these claims" in the
order given and to find their present
status IT Is only necessary TO refer
to Senate Document No. 413, filed at
the last session Of congress. and TO
the brief filed with the senate com.
mittee on foreign relations by ex-
Secretary OF State John w. Foster on
the ifth Of April.
J. Jaurett claims to be an American
citizen b. naturalization, who was ex.
peled from Venezuela by Costro'T Or
der. IN Offset 10 his demand for s25..
900 damages. 1t isi alleged by the
| Venezuelan government that Jaurett
was driven from that country because
LOT his proved completely in the Matos
revolution and for grossly libeling
| Venezuela and her officials in the
press Of the United States and other
lcountries; that his claim 20 be an
! American citizen IS based upon fraud
and perjury. that he is fugitive
| from France. having deserted from tae
| French army. and likewise & gitive
from justice IN Mexico, In which coun-
try be has been indicted for crime
and that he has openly accused OF
blackmailing ard othAr CRIMES in
Venezuela Captain Frank Parker
military attache OF our legation at
Caeacas, wrote OF Jaurett: AN adj
lventuYer rosdY TO steal he. or black.
mail whenever opportunity presented
an2 usually looking for such oppor
mnitles To the ordinary man II
would seem that the case Of Jaureti
s one for the police rather than toe
STAGE department. certainly no Amer
icsn interest was destroyed when
Castro cast him out II cannot be for
laurett that our legation Is abandon
ed
n. and III The cascs OF the Ori
noco Corporation and the OrinocC
Steamship Company were rejected by
lumpires designated by the United
States and Venezuelan Claims Com
mission. appointed under the proto
icol OF arbitration signed by represen
tatives of the governments of the Uni
ted States and Venezuela in 1903, b,
the terms OF which the two govern
ments agreed that the decisions O
The arbitration We're 20 be "final an,
conclusive No governmental action
on the part OF Nenezuola was respon
sible for the destruction or confsca
ton of any American interests "a
these instances Yenezuela is aske,
by our state depa,tment here 70 arbi
irata claims that have already beer
larbiirate1
~ IN the matter Of the UniteI
states and Venezuela Company thl
Venezuelan government insists tha
the company shall carry out aud abid
hy the terms 0f a contract which th
COMPANY itself alieges 10 be valid an
aubsistlng That CONTRACT provide
tnat "all disputes and controversle
arising ong OF if shall be settled by sh
Nenezuela courts. and shalt not b
lmade ihe bases 0f lnlcrnationa
clalms7 The United States and Vens
znela Company IA spite Of this eSplic
laereement on rs part has aDsoiulel