The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-12-17

Last April the President appointed
A. M. Kelley Minister to Italy to sue
coed Aston, who had resigned. The
italian Government objected to the APP
pointment on the ground that Kelley
had spoken against Victor Emanuel,
then King of Italy, some fifteen years
ago. Secretary Bayard informed the
Italian Minister that the United States
Government cannot take cognizance of
utterances alleged to have been made
unofficially fifteen years ago in appoint
ing its Ministers. Kelley ended further
discussion of the question by resigning
his commission. He was then appoint
ed Minister to Austria, and few days
afterwards Secretary Bayard was
handed by Baron Schaeffer, Austrian
Minister at Washington, translation
of telegram from his Government at
Vienna regretting the appointment of
Kelley to the Imperial Court, as scru-
pies prevailed against him there as at
Rome, and informing him that the
position of foreign envoy welded to a
Jewess by civil marriage would be I'M
tenable and even impossible at Vienna.
In replying to this Secretary Bayard
said
Religious liberty is the chief corner.
stone of the American system of gov.
eminent, and provisions for it's security
are imbedded in its written charter,
and interviewer in the moral fabric of
its laws. Anything that is intended to
evade right that is so essential and
sacred must be safely guarded against,
and I am satisfedsthat my countrymen,
ever mindful of the sufferings and sac.
rifices necessary to attain it, will never
consent to its impairment for any reason
or under any pretext whatsoever. In
harmony with this essential is
the almost equally potential unwrit.
ten law of American society that
awards respect and delicate considera.
tion to the women of the United States,
and exacts Difference in treatment at
home and abroad to the mothers, wives
and daughters of the Republic. The
case We are now considering is that of
an Envoy of the United States, unques.
tionably fitted, whose presence near the
foreign Government in question is OBJ
jected to by its Agent ON the sole
ground that his welded wife is alleged
to entertain a religious faith which is
held by very many of the most honored
and valued citizens of the United States
1t is not believed by the President that a
doctrine and practice so destructive of
religious liberty and freedom of con.
science, so devoid of catholcity and so
opposed to the spirit of the age in which
we live, can for moment be accepted
by the great family of civilized nations,
or be allowed to control their diplomatic
intercourse. Certain it is, it will never,
in my belief, be accepted by the people
of the United States nor by any admin.
istration which represents their senti-
ments." ~
The Senate by resolution called on the
President for ali the papers and CORE
spondence relating to the matter, and
the documents have been read in the
Senate and published in it's proceed.
ings. The correspondence shows that
the Administration has taken stand,
which receives the approval of every
person worthy the name of american
citizen. and indicate that the President
will not appoint successor to !. Kelley,
until Austria understands that the
United States Government does not
select Ministers to foreign countries,
because of the religious belief of them.
selves or their wives.