Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-05-03
A. PROMISED DISCLOSURE.


Gencruf Adam Badeaa, who is
chiefly skn avn to fame and renown
through his connection with the Grant
ADMINISTRATION has resigned bis posi-
tion of Consul General at Havana and
returned bristling with grievances
and accusations and a declaration OF
war against the State Department
sticking out. of his hip pocket. He
says: q
AZ charge the State Department
with grave derelictons of public duty ;
also gross and continued neglect Of
injuries and insults put upon Ameri-
can. citizens, American seamen and
American trade in the Island of Cuba ;
with q vacillating and ignonlinious
policy, requiring often to be stimn.
lated In the defense or protection OF
Aner,cans, and even afler sometimes
assuming an honorable and becoming
position, abandoning il, IS rule be.
forS The resistance OF Spain, and yield
inv more than once just before Spain
aoeeded to its just demands. charge
Will ntkOtfhAnS Sch'fieftAhs
agreement With Spain so manifestly
improper and -ill.considered that, in
six weeks after it was signed, it had to
he abandoned, and q new one con.
cluded in which two OF the original
seven articles were abandoned alto
gether, while two others must be sub
mitted TO the decision of the Spanish
Cortes not,yet elected. charge that
the stipulations OF this agreement are
injurious to the interests and honor of
the country and reproaeh to its di-
plomacy, for it provides that the
United States shall abandon to Spain
duties amounting annually to
46,500.000, while Spain gives up to The
United States only 81, 100000 in return.
Charge that this agreement was, in
reality, a treaty, and was not submitted
toathe Senate in accordance with the
Constitution. and under the pretense
that 1t was q commercial agreement,
important stipulations with foreign
government were entered into without
the sanction of that branch of the
Legislature whose consent is indispen-
sable. charge that the agreement
was scrupulously concealed in all its
points from the chief representative
Of the United States on the island
which its stipulntions almost exclu.
sivsly affect, although private parties
and interested individuals We're taken
intu she confidence of the Department.
I charge the Department. simultan.
eously with these and other delin-
quenoiss, with screening and support
ion ~ N - al arl-
whom l repeatedly reported for viola
tion OF orders. gross insubordination
and abstraction Of public and private
moneys, / hold myself ready to sub
stantlate every one of these charges
and call upon the State Department to
publish every dispatch that has
passed between itself and me since
December 28th last, the date of my
arrival At my post, without one word
omitted OF one line mutilated. ! de-
clare, OF my own knowledge, that no
legitimate interest, public or private,
can suffer from this, and that no one
will,be; hurt except those who should
MOTHS screened"
It is refreshing to see an American
occasionally make stand against for
eiRn insolencc- and eowardly home
ineompetency, but the experience of
the past irresistibly leads enc to the
conclusion that the Investigation will
end in the State Department apollo
giving to the Spanish Government for
ever'having allowed it to go on. The
doughty General appears TO be in
earnest, however, and something may
come of it, If the investigation does
no more than open the eyes of the
people TO the great principles of Amer
icanism disclosed in the few brief
Glimpses we have had of Blaines
foreign policy, it will not be entirely
barren of good.