VENEZUELAN DISPUTE.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. A BELLICOSE MANIFESTO. THREATENED WAR WITH ENGLAND. Press Association.-Mectric TolecrapU.-Copyright, Washington, December 17. President Cleveland has presented a message to Congress stating that as Lord Salisbury refuses to submit the Venezuelan dispute to arbitration, it will be necessary for the United States to fix the boundary between that Republic and British Guiana, The order for the United Slates fleet to rendezvous at Venezuela has been rescinded. London, December 18.
Lord Salisbury, replying to the demand for arbitration on the Venezuelan boundary question, states that the United States Government take an extreme view of the Monroe doctrine.
President Cleveland's message to Congress urged that it was incumbent on Congress to vote the expenses of a commission to determine the true frontier, and afterwards resist British aggression if the territory in dispute was recognised as belonging to Vene zaela. It would be a grievous thing for English people to be unfriendly, but supine submission to wrong and injustice would be a worse calamity. He recognised all the consequences that might accrue if the message, which was received with general applause and clapping of hands, was referred to the Committee on Foreign A flairs.
Mr. Chandler Lodge, and other Senators who have been making themselves notorious lately by advocating the forcing of war on England, are delighted at the bellicose tone of President Cleveland's manifesto, and it is expected that both parties will endorse it.
The New York press applauds the President's patriotic vigour, but some papers admit it is merely a political manoeuvre to corner the Republicans.
The English press is amazed at President Cleveland's conduct. The Times says no nation with any self-respect can concede his demands. The Government will not accept less than the territory deliminated by the Schomburgk decision, and the work ot such a commission as is suggested would be valueless
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10007, 19 December 1895, Page 5
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308VENEZUELAN DISPUTE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10007, 19 December 1895, Page 5
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