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VENEZUELA. 



authorities of British (Jumna necessarily gives 

 rise to grave di^ui. m.i.- and creates as appre- 

 hension t i mi tii.- territorial claim does not follow 

 al tradit lence, but is apparent! v 



indefinite il< intimated anew the great grati- 

 fication that it would afford tin- I 

 Government t - in di-pui- 



cahly and honorably settled l>v arl.itr.-r 

 otherwise. After pointing oat thai (Jiia-ipati 

 . .v. itward of the in ..... mViaiiy 



rlaitncdin 1887, which followed tin- Vurunri and 

 made a wi<l- detour t. tin- west of the 



by the Colonial <MViee ten 



curlier. Mr. Ila\ ided : " If. ind- 



>h-.-il.l np|H>ar that th-r.> > n<> !i\.-.| limit (<> the 



Itriti-h Itiiutiilary claim. our good di-posit imi to 



aid in a U>undary -. tr l.-inmt might not only be 



1. Inn beobttaedto Rive place to a reel- 



In formation having been 



received in 1889 that Barium had been declared 



i'.Iaine authori/.-,! the 



cling minister in London to confer witli 



Salisbury. with a view to tin- rc-cstailislmicnf "f 



diplomatic relations between Great Britain ami 



Venezuela on thebasi-of the temporary re 



tion uf the xtntn* </un. In Mav, 181M). tin - 



t*ry telegraphed t. Mr. Lincoln t> use his good 



offices to bring about the resumption ,.f diplo- 



matic intercourse as a preliminary step toward 



the settlement of t he boundary depute by arbi- 



tration, and to that end he suggested an infor- 



mal conference in Washington or London of 



representative.'' of the :{ powers in which confer- 



ence the no^i tion of the I'nited States would IK; 



"one solely of impartial friendship toward both 



The min i-trurted to do 



all that ho roul i ' ly with such an im- 



partial attitude. t bring about some accord 1><- 



tween the contestants By which "the m< 



the controversy can be fairly ascertained and 



^hU of each party Jostly rnnfirmiMl." 



pressing an opinion as to what those 



rights wer.-. the Department of State " was con- 



that the shifting footing on which the 



Ix.undary .pi.-t I..M has rested for several 



years past is an obstacle to such a correct appre- 



ciation of the nature and grounds of her claim 



as would alone warrant the formation of an 



NVith the development of mining, the bound- 

 ary claim of Great Britain continued to be 

 moved farther west. i was forced by 



British aggressions to resume i 



were reopened in 1890 through the Vene- 

 Jwelan minister in Paris and a special envoy. 

 The latter wen to London with a view t 

 resumption of regular diplomatic relation 

 wa * *oeived or s 



d 

 wt 



*oeived or Lord Salisbury throng. 

 office* ^roftheVnited States: 



tb* mission failed because a condition of 

 rwumption that v ad- 



l to WM the reference of tha boundary dis- 

 H? 1 * :. h.^ interview 



iJiL^! 111 ' 



r broached the subject of the boundary 

 **. s informed that " England is not 

 *wtbt "T *ji*-h nation an V- 



* admit that therp is any que^ 



tho two countries." fhe line 



u 



the Amacuk*, west of Point 



Barium. Sofior Mi. lielena. a confident ia 

 .a. reopnied informal nepit iai . 

 i in lyi::. Lord ! ih,. 



front irrwrst of the Amamka and in the interior 

 a- far as the Source of Ciimano n\. r and the 



: to arliit i. 

 ^ardinu' territory we>t of that line. Tie 



n a.u'enl abandoned lu> fruni. mi ion in 

 a\ in;,' at the I-'. .1 . i-n < Hlice a 

 declaration protesting against t he pro<-ee.l, 



lony of Briti>h (iuiuna as encr->a< Innnits 

 ii|N>n the "soil of the republic, 

 the claim of the British (iovernmenl that that 



part Of the loIIL-ed to I'.ntl^ll <. 



and laying ujtoii the I'ritish Government the 

 ri-pon-iliility for the incidents that miul 



in the future from the neee ity to \\llH-h 



/iiela was driven to oppose the" di-p- 



a part of her territory an J pr<-\ ide lor h. i 



imate di-fi-nsc. 



Aft.-r the failure of the Michelena m 

 /uela repeatedly brought tin- contr 

 to the notice of the (i(i\-eniment in \V 

 in-i.-tin.u' "n it- importance to tin- I'nil.-d 

 as well as to Ven.v.uela, and reprcM-iil. , ; 

 _ reached an acute Ma.ue. The mini 

 St.. Fanny's was informally in>t meted tc. 

 all his influence in the dir. ctj,.n of the r. 

 ii-hiudit of diplomat ic in' 

 of arbitration. On July 1::. L84, 

 (Jre-ham wrote to M . "I can d 



but two equitable solutions of the j. : 



< >iic i> the arbitration of tin 



of the disputants as t : :\-c inooes.- 



Holland and Spain over the region in ipe 



The other i< \ create a new boundary lim- in 



accordance with the dictates of mutual < 



ency and consideration. The two governments 



having so far been unable to agree upon .. 



ventional line, the mii^N-iit and c 



ad vooaoy bv the rnite.i stairs and ! 



the principle of arbitration and th> 

 thereto in settlement of important ipi< 

 ari-inu' between them, makes s U ,-h a IIP 

 adjustment espedally appropriate in the pi 



instoi 



The authorities of r.ritixh (luiana in 18fl 

 tablished a police station at Vurnan. 

 lion of the Yuriian and ^'urllari ri\.i 

 iniN-s bey..nd the Schombiir^k line and out-ide 

 of the Aberdeen and (Jranville lin.--. ..r any 

 line previously claimed by(ireat Britain. Warn'- 

 from the Venezuelan milita- 



<!! the opposite side ,,f the Cnyuni that till- U|- 



prr riiyuni district was administered b\ 

 Tim-la and never had been claimed by 

 Britain. In September a party went ov< 

 arre-ted In-pector Barne* an'i Siibiu-: 

 I'.aker. carrying them to I'pata for tri.i 

 soon as the fa<-t- b.-came known in < 

 peremptory orders were sent for the rd. 

 the prisoners, who were thereupon com! 

 back to the place where they had been captured, 

 and were ret.aid for the loss of clothe* an.: 

 proiH-rty. I'lu- Kn^li-h hauled down the 

 ruelan fln^ and rai-ed their own a^ain. The 

 leaders of the raiding party were order 

 Caracas, and were there severely punished. In 

 --lan.l demanded an indemnity 

 of ITJ/HKJ for "the arrest and impri-onn, 

 -!ish subjects on Knglish territory." 



