Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1901 — GUNBOAT TO VENEZUELA. [ARTICLE]

GUNBOAT TO VENEZUELA.

United States Orders the Scorpion to La Guira. A Washington correspondent says that the gunboat Scorpion has been ordered to La Guira, the order emphasizing the fear of the State Department and Navy Department that there will be serious trouble in Venezuela, notwithstanding all the protestations of the litigant asphalt companies that the issues will he met iu an orderly manner. The presence of the Scorpiou in Venezuelan waters will give the United States u squadron to rail upon in case of emergency, us the Lancaster is absent only temporarily at Santa Lucia and the Dixie is on the way from that place to La Guira. While the departments are not willing to explain the real reason of this assemblage of warships off Venezuela, it is obvious that they are to be used to prevent filibustering expeditions, such as have been reported, in the interest of the asphalt trust. The Scorpion has been on surveying duty, which has not been finished, in and around the Orinoco river, and her sudden movement to Venezuela can he connected only with the belief in official circles that a large American force is absolutely necessary off Venezuela. Physical intervention by tha United Btatea la certain to take place if there la a conflict *bet Ween the employee of the New York and Bermudea Company and the militia of Bermudea Province, in which the aaphalt territory lies. . Don’t uae slang phrase*.