St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-18
DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
The Publication of the Usual Report
Causelessly Delayed.
Especial Telegram TO the Globe.

matte correspondence for the years 1882 50
has been unsccountably delayed In publica-
ton. The law requires the secretary Of state
To make an annual report when the other
beads of departments do By custom the
secretary makes no report at the beginning
OF session of congress beyond writing that
portion Of the presidents message which
deals with foreign affairs, but few months
later, he selects from the aggregate Of the
diplomatic correspondence such letters as he
sees ut TO publish, and has them issued in
book form. 1t ought not TO require much
argument to show that diplomatic CORES
pondence should be laid before congress in
print at the beginning OF the session. 1t is
Tor the information of congress. and con-
gress ought 10 have IL with a reasonable de-
grees promptnsss. but as a member of the
cabinet remarked on one occasion, the state
department Is a law unto Itself The diplo-
matte correspondence for 1872 was not
published till April, 1888, after the adjourn
ment OF the next ensuing session of cou-
gress- Even that degree Of celebrity would
have brought the present volume out last
April, while congress was In session. but
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volume has only been out few days
There are No exciting subjects discussed
In this volume. Ii contained the correspond
enee regarding the trial aud execution of
O'Donnell, the ayenger, but O'Donnen is
dead and most of this correspondence was
made public year ago. There is some
further correspondence between Mr..
Frrinchuysen and Lord Granville rela-
tive TO the Clayton-Bulwer treaty,
III there is long correspondence between
Mr. Frelinghuysen aud Mr.. Logan relative
TO the Chili-Peru-Bolivia war aud its settle
menL Most Of Frelinghuysen's eorrespon-
dence with our ministers 10 France and
England is in relation to the great American
hog
The volume contains some interesting
correspondence in relation to the nat
uralization and rights OF American cit
liens abroad. In the case
of John G. Rowe, a citizen Of the Argentine
Republic, naturalized in the United States,
who subsequently resided in the Argentine
Republic, the government of that republic
claimed that Mr.. Rowe's American naturali-
cation lapsed. Mr.. Frelinghuysen writes to
Mr.. 7. o. Osborn, July is, 1883:
''If tie Argentine government admits the
principle OF repatriation, then it cannot con-
sistently bold that the mere return OF an
Argentine naturalized abroad, can operate
alone TO annui his acquired citizenship aud
restore him 10 Argentine allegiance and jur-
isdietion. yet that is precisely what is under
stood TO have been claimed in Mr. Rowe's
case, and the purpose of instrue-
ton No. los was 10 declare the inability OF
this government TO recognize any claim that
Mr.. Rowe had, by his return, resumed his
Argentine allegiance, and with a knowledge
that his act was in effect an abandonment of
his new allegiance and a resumption Of his
old one. A tribunal of the United
States having adjudicated Mr.. Rowe TO be an
American citizen by solemn act of record It
does not comport with international dignity
for the government, through you, to submit
TO an Argentine tribunal the decision whether
be became an alien by the act of being natu-
rallied in the United States. In either
case, whether the claim be that Mr.
ROwe's mere return to Argentine iuris
his acquired status and resump-
ton of his former allegiance, or whether
1t be that he did not in good faith become a
citizen Of the United States, this govern
ment cannot join in submitting a decision
of the point to an Argentine court. The de-
partments instruction No. los should there
fore stand Won shonlJ
however, take an occasion of making it clear
to the minister Of foreign affairs that we
do not acquiesce in any decision
which may assume the resumption of Argen-
tine allegiance by an Argentine naturalized
in the United States, unless by some act in
diligently performed by him to that end, or
by some other act manifestly inconsistent
with his acquired allegiance, or he either re-
sumes his old condition or forfeits his right
to protection under his new status"
Mr.. Taft, minister to Austria, wrote to the
department in relation 70 Hungarian who
had him naturalized here and lad immedi-
ately returned to Budah, Pesth, and given
no signs of American citizenship till he re-
Gently desired to register his children as
American citizens. MIR. Davis, acting sec
Rotary, replied under date OF January Is,
1888: ''You state the case of
native Of Hungary brought to your
notice by the consul at Budah.
Pesth, who emigrated to the United States,
remained there six years, became natural
lied, then returned to Hungary, where he
has remained for the past fifteen years, has
paid taxes and voted, has married and had
children. The children be now desires TO
have registered as children of an American
citizen at the consulate in Budab, Pesth. To
the inquiries Of the consul whether
he should register the children
II he renewed the passport Of the
father, which was dated 1855, and, secondly.
what was the true construction Of paragraph
l67 Of the consular regulations, you reply
that the fact Of the father returning to Hun
gary and voting in that country immediately
after obtaining his naturalization was evil
dence of his resuming the domicile and citi-
zenship of his birth, and that a passport is
good for two years and no longer. You present
the case for approval by the department on
your ruling. In reply / have to state that
your conclusions are approved, except that
IL is thought that too much stress may be
laid on the fact that the person whose case Is
described voted in Hungary, inasmuch as 1t
appears that foreign tax payers NAV vote
The absence Of intent to return and silence
as to his status for fifteen years
afford sufficient ground for refusing
a renewal of his passport The question of
his own or his children's nationality will be-
come proper subjects for consideration when
be shall have returned to the United States.
resumed bis residence. and taken upon him
self the duties and obligations of American
citizenship"
Under date of July 80, 1888, Mr.. Freling-
huysen writes to Mr.. Brulatour, charge daft
fairies at Paris:
''Your dispatch No. $40, Of the 18th inst,
relating to the application Of Mr.. George
Schmidt for passport for his two minor
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You state that Mr.. Schmidt, an Austrian by
birth, who obtained naturalization