Evening star., 1909-04-21
TO END VENEZUELAN DISPUTE
TO SETTLE CON-
TRovERsY DESCRIBED.
Report Of the Secretary Of State
Regarding Arrangements
Sent to Congress.

President Taft has sent TO Congress Q
report by the Secretary of State regard
ing the settlement OF the Venezuelan
claims negotiated by William T. Buch-
anan, the American special commissioner.
who was sent to that country following
the resumption OF friendly relations last
December. 1t is supplemental TO the data
furnished to Congress last year by Sec
retary Root and thus brings the matter
up to date.
AS has already been stated in the press
dispatches. arrangements were made for
the settlement OF the Jaurett claim and
that OF the New York and Bermudex
Company out OF court, while the claims
to go to arbitration are those OF the
Orinoco Corporation, the Orinoco Steam
ship Company and that of the United
States and Venezuela Company. Specific
provision Is made, however. that Vene-
zuela, with the consent Of the United
States, may reach an amicable settlement
within five months with either the ORR
aoco Corporation or the United States
and Venezuela Company. Mr.. Buchanan
is to be the agent Of the United States In
the forthcoming arbitration and William
C. Dennis. assistant solicitor of the State
Department, has been designated as So
licitor to the agent for the presentation
of the cases to The Hague.
Arbitration at The Hague.
The arbitraI tribunal is to decide each
equity and its decisions are to be final
and conclusive, all awards to be paid In
United States gold coin.
At The Hague the parties interested
will be entitled to use the English.
To hA a r.
bitral tribunal will meet February Ii,
1910. Press dispatches indicate that
Venezuela has selected Senior Rogue
Saenz Pena of the Argentine republic as
the Judge to represent her at The Hague.
Each of the claimant companies will Do
represented by special counsel, approved
by the State Department.
Severance Of Relations.
The report recites the severance Of dip
lomatic relations with Venexuela and
their renewal. following q change OF
policy on the part OF that government.
under Gen. Gomez. who took charge iu
the absence of Castro. Relations with
Venezuela were severed. according to .
memoranda prepared for the press, In
view Of the persistent refusal Of the gov
ernment OF Venezuela to grant redress for
the action Of the government whereby
In Venezuela had been destroyed or con-
fscated, and. specifically, In view OF the
refusal of the government OF Venezuela
to grant redress In regard to five cases
which had been the subject of long cor
respondence between the two govern
mente.
The orinoco Corporation Case.
One of the cases which took long time
to settle was that Of the claim Of the
Orinoco corporation. growing out OF the
alleged violation on the part OF vene-
zuela OF the so-called Fitzgerald conces-
sion whereby Venezuela granted a nine
ty-nine year concession OF certain por-
ton Of the delta Of the Orinoco. This
claim came before the United States
Venezuelan mixed commission of 1908
and it was asserted that Venezuela pro-
ceeded to parcel out the concession, pay
ing no attention to the decision OF the
tribunal that the original concession was
still in force. The United States steadily
contended that the entire case should be
examined on its merits before an impair
tial tribunal having in view matters
which have arisen since the decision of
the commission in 1903 as well as prior
thereto. and the result IL fully contained
in the protocol.
Features OF the other cases settled by
Mr. Buchanan have been narrated in the
Associated Press dispatches from Cara
cas-.