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Anglo-american Arbitration

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
August
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tho history o-f the Venezuela questiou is ma-rked by the subcnission of document by the Venezuelan governInent in support of its case, and on the other hand by. the runiored military preparations of the Brltlah Guiana goverriment. The genius of the BritJsihers as opposed to that o:1 the lialiSpanish Venezuelan is marked. The character of the official correspondence between the Salisbury govemment and Seoretary Olney i also Ulustrativie. Iord Salisbury proposes that what are arbitral and Nvhat erO not. arbitral cásea shall be de ined ed by treaty, and suggests that irbitration be limited to claini3 amount'img to $500,000 or less, evideiUly preferring a settlement by war where the claims are of greater ralue. The American gover nment, on the (jther hand, take? tba only ju -t ut perhaps impracticable s;roiual, that all questions shiall be eonsiae u.I prima SacSe arbitral, and that the award rru:ill le binding, if coai aisd upou appeal. I'iiij.i.st. as are til demands oí one, aa.l l-mpractleaible aJ are the principé o the other, it fe be 'liopeLl that aoms selxeme o.' :ir1;tration between t;hc two count'ie may Ul' ailoiiied. Tne ,o-'ms oí a governmöiu o; the tivo Etogüah ieoples raust to some extent pi-ecede tiiu spirit of tht goevrnment.

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Ann Arbor Courier