People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT LIKELY [ARTICLE]

PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT LIKELY

Great Britain Ig Exhibiting a More Friendly Feeling. Washington, Jan. 22. —While the prospects for a peaceful settlement of the Venezuelan question appear to be good, it is said at the state department that there has been no definite action taken by any one of the three governments to justify this opinion. The prediction is based, according to members of the diplomatic corps, on the friendly feeling s..own by Lord Salisbury rather than on anything else. It was for this reason that the administration exerted its influence to head off the Davis declaration on the Monroe doctrine. It was feared that this would be construed by Salisbury as a threat, and hence would delay a settlement or possibly upset it altogether.