New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-20
FROM WASHING TON.
TEHUANTEPEC.

WASHINGTON, July Is, 1897.
The telegraph announcement to Ne"-i"rS e'"-
not be altogether correct with respect to tue ac'on
'of the President in reference to TehuantePec'
very delicate matter both with our own "o'e'"'
roent and with the Government OF Mexico
Gossip il busy in the consideration of the SUBJECT
There vii, he no objection to the caiman's u"''o'
the so.caled Mexican grant 10 0aIay yo';n"s
finances ,o those of Col. SOo under tue IeA'o'l'
grant 10 the latter gentlemen nut IL cai,lIt
that the Garay claim, rs such, VIII az all ihoio"'o
N. force of existing rights OF A. IT, 800;
'io " ~ ssioD 10 SloO is stated To have been
Il 9TH the view OF preventing possible cohtro-
- between our own Government ANA thal VI
We,ico The atention of the grant to Sloo was %
favor the transit of United States commerce through
or over the Is.hmus but 10 al respects exclusively
nnder the national fog of Mexico. With this view
Tebuantepec was decreed a separate department
or state of the Mexican republic, and special idea
il embraced in the grant to Soo for the purpose OF
avoiding the impression that the said grant could
become a question Of diplomatic trouble win the
United States.
There appears now, however, to have arisen
difference between A. G. SlOO and some OF the
stockholders, his partners it IS hence stated that
the President has taken sides win the directory VI
the rosd adverse to the private interest Oi A. u.
Sloo. There must be- error in this statement. IL
Safcultv exist between SlOO and his partners it
,Vmh have 10 be decided in court OF law. The
President could not interfere, especially not for the
benefit of some of the hgants to the prejudice OF
OF them.
The claimants under the Garay grant, from the
first moment Of the Mexican concession to SlOo,
were opposed to the latter. The Garay grant aud
the claim Tade under il both, in law, said to be
extinct Garay was Mexican. The grant to HIM
was conditional. The conditions were not com
Dlied with. The grant TO Garay, therefore, be-
came nudity. Had this not been the case still
Garay had no right to dispose of bis grant to for
eipn subject The grant was conceded to him as to
q Mexican. for the advancement of Mexican inter-
ests. II was a concession affecting the national
territory No government ever could confer upon
citizen the right TO dispose of the nation al terrific
rial interests 1t was not done in the case of the
grant to Garay; and yet Garay disposed OF his as
sumed privileges To British subject, who
transferred them 10 the present CLAIMANTS
upder the grant. The present claimants
then endeayored to enforce their supposed rights
against Mexico through our Government unsucress-
fully. Their case was submitted to the Supreme
Court of Mckee for adjudication. The Supreme
Court of Mexico decided the grant to Garay Eek
nnct and the claim under it without force either
in law or equity" The reasons were-the non-iui-
fillment of the conditions and the lmposslblty that
apy territorial mmunities could be conveyed "
foreign subject, except through special act of the
national Government. or by treaty. Were the Law
of national equity different from the foregoing, the
citizen of any country would be admitted TO possess
immunities greater than those of Government and
even dispose of q country to to neghboring Power,
independently of executive authority and national
legislation. ~
The foregoing are some only Of the many difficult
ties which diplomacy will have to grapple with In
reference to Tehuantepec.
Comonfort took his station at the head of Mexican
affairs opposed to all disposal of tue national terri
tory, and be reached the summit of power by de-
nouncing the transfer to our own Government OF the
Gadsden purchase. Comontort will thus be placed
in very delicate position, If he should be urged IN
relation to the transfer Of Tehuantepec III way
that would appear to be coercve, because OF the
governmental need of funds.
The Isthmus of Tehuantepee is in the center OF
Mexico, and it is said to be the opinion OF Mexican
diplomatiss thst transfer cannot be made to us Tor
that reason. 1t would sever Mexican Territory and
establish our Government between the northern and
southern portions This would be very inconvenlent
But it is clearly intimated that if our Government
can, in some way secure Mexican territory from
possible fllbuster invasion from the United States
the existing difficulties with respect to enlarged III,
tercourse with Tehuantepec would be nearly If not
altogether, removed u. Il.