People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — GRESHAM AS PEACEMAKER. [ARTICLE]

GRESHAM AS PEACEMAKER.

Extracts from Letters to Bayard on the Venezuela Dispute. Washington, April 17.—The published correspondence of the state department for 1894, made public yesterday, contains but two letters in reference to the Venezuelan boundary’ dispute. They are addressed to Ambassador Bayard at London and are dated July 13 and Dec. 1 last respectively. The first letter recites the efforts made to have the dispute settled by arbitration and England’s gradually widening claims to territory and concludes with the opinion there are but two solutions of the question—arbitration or the creation of a new boundary line “in accordance with the dictates of expediency and consideration.’’ The second letter is a reference to Britain's contention that the validity of her claim to territory in dispute shall be a condition precedent to the submission of the matter to arbitration and hopes Mr. Bayard will succeed in securing an honorable settlement of the difficulty.