The Committee of Arbitration is to meet in Paris, and is to consist of two
Englishmen, Baron Herschel, and Sir Richard Henn Collins, a Judge of the
English Supreme Court; one American, Judge Brewer; and one member chosen
by Venezuela, who is also an American, the Hon. Melville Weston Fuller,
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

These four arbitrators are to decide among themselves who shall be the
fifth man to join them in their work.

If they have not been able to agree on the fifth man in three months after
they meet, our old friend, King Oscar of Sweden, is to step in and fill
the vacant place.

The treaty provides that within six months after it is signed the
committee must meet in Paris, and that the whole work shall, if possible,
be completed within six months after the meeting.

The two copies of the treaty, as soon as they were signed by Sir Julian
Pauncefote for England, and Senor José Andrade for Venezuela, were sent
off, the one to London, the other to Caracas, to be ratified by the
governments of England and Venezuela.

The ratification must be made within six months of the date of signing,
and then the work of the committee will begin.

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Very little headway has been made with our own treaty with England.

The Committee on Foreign Relations has made certain changes in it, and