Items of Interest February 13, 1904 Issue

Items of Interest

The negotiations between the United States and other Powers, and Venezuela, growing out of claims against Venezuela, are nearly completed. Eleven tribunals, whose decisions upon controverted questions must be final, have held sessions during the last six months in Caracas. Of claims aggregating thirty million dollars, about eighty percent have been rejected and disallowed.

The superiority of arbitration over guns as a debt collector has been clearly shown by the results of these tribunals, both from the cost of collection and the just determining of the facts in many claims. The commissions or courts were mixed, the contending Governments each naming a commissioner, the third member of the court, or umpire, being chosen by some Government foreign to the claims.

An order for the first issue of the new Louisiana Purchase Exposition postage stamps, which are to be placed on sale at all post offices in the United States May 1, has been sent to the Burean of Engraving and Printing. It calls for the printing of one-cent stamps, bearing the portrait of Robbert R. Livingston; two-cent stamps, bearing the portrait of Thomas Jefferson; three-cent, with Monroe's portrait; five-cent, with McKinley's portrait, and ten-cent stamps with a miniature map of the United States, showing the territory acquired by the Louisiana Purchase.

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