People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — Queen’s Words Are Meaningless. [ARTICLE]

Queen’s Words Are Meaningless.

Washington, Feb. 12. —One of the beet-posted men in congress on diplomatic affairs said last night that the Queen’s reference to the Venezuelan boundary question, in her speech in parliament, is as indefinite as the speech and communications by Lord Salisbury. It was a good-natured expression of nothing, for if the Queen had indorsed the principle of arbitration the contention of Great Britain would have been at an end. Senator Davis has given notice of a speech on his resolution on the Monroe doctrine next Monday, and he will, no doubt, have something to say about this expression of sympathy with the contention of the United States on this question.