The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1884-05-02
OUR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS.
Grave Charges Against the State DEPARTING

Grave Charges Against the State Department
NEW YORK, April 2S.-The Tribune to.
morrow will contain the following letter
from Gen. Badeau. He says:
"SIR: have resigned my position as Con.
sui General at Havana. beg leave to state
my reasons for this act. On February Goth,
and again on March 22d last, addressed the
President protesting against the action OF
the state Department In its persistently
screening corruption, and at the same time
negotiating an injurious and improper treat,
with Spain. On April 4th, having receive,
no reply, photographed the President request
Ing to be ordered to Washington to substau
tate my charges. To this also / received II,
reply. On April 9th again telegraphed In
these words: Il have the honor to tender my
resignation to take effect Immediately unless
I can be ordered to Washington for the pur
poses already explained | then receive,
dispatches by cable from the Secretary q
State, announcing that the President di
not think 1t advisable for me to return
Washington, as my services were required
Havana. Ireplied Immediately: Ireques
you to say to the President that am unwil,
ing to serve under department whose POI
icy disapprove, and which 1 consider hs
treated me with injustice and indignity.
tender my resignation to takc effect imms
diately.' To this 1 got no reply, and agai
telegraphed the President: Il shall appeal b
the people to. morrow unless l hear iron
you.' Within twenty four hours an answr
came that my resignation was accepted .
requested.
81 now charge the State Department witt
grave derelictions from public duty; Will
gross and continued neglect OF injuries ant
insults put upon American citizens, Ameri
can seamen and the American trade with the
island of Cuba; with vascillating and ig-
nominious policy, requiring often to be
stimulated. for the protection OF Americans !;
and even, II sometimes assuming an honora-
bic and becoming position, Of abandoning 1t
as rule, before the resistance Of Spain and
yielding more than once just before Spain
acceded TO its just demands. / charge 1t
with the neglect Of a commercial agreement
with Spain, so manifestly improper and Ill
considered that In six weeks after It was
signed 1t had to be abandoned and q new
one concluded in which two Of the original
seven articles were omitted, while two 9TH
ers must be submitted TO the decision Of the
Spanish Cortes not yet elected. | charge
that the stipulaticns Of the agreement are
Injurious to the interests and honor of the
~S"iJ ~''u Icpro.ch f. Al. -.
that tho United safes shall abandon TO
Spain duties amounting annually to SO, $780,
600, while Spain gives up to tho United
States only $I,7Oo,00o In return. I charge
that this agreement was in reality q treaty
and was not submitted to the Senate in &C.
cordance with the constitution, under pre-
tense that II was . commercial agreement
Important .stipulations with q foreign gov
eminent were entered into without the
sanction Of that branch of the Legislature,
whose consent is indispensable. l charge
that the agreement was scrupulously con-
cealed in all Its points from the chief repre-
sentative Of the United States on the island,
whom Its stIpulations almost exclusively
affect, although privale parties and interested
individuals were taken into the confidence
Of the department"