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Cleveland Signs Arbitration Resolution

When: 22 February 1895
Where: Washington, D.C.
Part of: Cleveland signs Venezuela–Britain arbitration recommendation

President Cleveland signed a congressional resolution into law, recommending arbitration for the Venezuela-Britain boundary dispute after it passed both houses of Congress.

The resolution recommended that Venezuela and Great Britain settle their long-standing boundary dispute by arbitration. Cleveland signed the bill on 22 February 1895, following its passage in both houses of Congress. The measure emerged from the diplomatic crisis over the Essequibo territory, in which Venezuelan lobbyist William Lindsay Scruggs contended that British behaviour violated the Monroe Doctrine and pressed the matter in Washington.

Sources

Venezuelan crisis of 1895 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-05-30

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