Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — ENGLAND WILL YIELD. [ARTICLE]

ENGLAND WILL YIELD.

Graceful Backdown Projected in the Venezuelan Matter. Aside from the leisurely manner in which the Venezuelan commission is arranging to prosecute its work, there are other indications, says a Washington corres|H>ndeiit, that the administration has become convinced that this august body will not have the honor of settling the great boundary dispute. While it cannot be stptqd positively that this belief is based entirely upon any specific reports from Ambassador Bayard upon the subject, yett here is reason to believe some assurances of a satisfactory nature have eomty-toThe State Department that the matter will In' terminated shortly. probably within two,months, or before a report can reasonably be expected from the Venezuelan commission, and upon lines that will be unobjectionable to our government. While details of the arrangement are not obtainable, and perhaps have not yet been fixed, it is believed the basis of it will be arbitration as proposed originally by the United States, but with a limitation that will suffice at least to save British pride ami appear to maintain British

consistency. This is likely to be found in an agreement between Great Britain and Venezuela directly, brought about through the good offices of a third party, not nesessarily or probably the United States, to submit to a joint commission the question of the title to all territory west of the Schomburgk line, with a proviso that if in the course of the inquiry of the commission evidence appears to touch the British title to ‘he lands lying to tiie eastward of that line the body may extend fts functions to adjudicate such title. This arrangement will meet the British contention that the original arbitration shall be'liiuited to lands to the westward of the line','while.still conceding the justice of the contention of President Cleveland that the lands qrtt the ofher side may properly be taken into consideration in fixing the boundary; Possibly a supplementary arbitration will be left to deaiwith the question as to the title of the eastward lands, if the original commission dealing with the matter shall find that the title to the lands is a tit subject for arbitration as shown by the evidence produced before it.