Minister Russell to the Secretary of State.
(Mr. Russell informs Mr. Root that the plenipotentiary appointed by Colombia to arrange with Venezuelan plenipotentiary a treaty of navigation frontiers and frontier and transit commerce arrived about three weeks ago, and requested to be received by the Acting President in a formal audience. Mr. Russell states that the Government replied that the Colombian plenipotentiary could not be received in accordance with the terms of the protocol of last December until the treaty had been signed and put into execution. The Colombian plenipotentiary insisted until finally the Government of Venezuela stated that it could have no further relations with him and that Colombian Government must send some one else.)