Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-12-27
PLUMB ON KELLEY.
He Thinks There 10 no Necessity fol
Ministers 1t any Higher Court.

SpOu luC 4uCStiOu VI IClCkIb0k toC
correspondence on the Kelley affair
to the committee on foreign relations
ON the side of the United States, SEN
aior Plumb spoke as follows:
think the correspondence and this
whole occurrence illustrates more per.
fectIy and fully what we accomplish
by that we call our diplomatic SER
vice, than anything else which has re-
Gently taken place; and am unwilling
that this resolution shall 60 to the
committee on foreign relations without
briefly calling attention to it.
think myself that there is no ques-
lion of religious liberty whatever in-
voived here. think the key to all
this situation is found ia the letter of
Baron Schaffer to Mr.. Bayard of the
llih day of June, and the letter OF Mr..
Bayard to Mr.. McLaue, in which he
himself interprels, think, this whole
discussion very correctly, Of the date
of May 81.
In the first place. Austria is neigh
Dor of Italy. Italy having declined
to receive Mr.. Kelly, Austria said in
substance it would be an unneigh-
borly act TO receive him as minister;
and in addition to that it was stated
that because he had married Jewess,
Vienna society would not receive
him: and IS Mr.. Ksile,'s
duties there would be wholly
social, and as he could rot get INFO So
ciety unless the Austrian government
took him in under its wing, and as it
could not properly undertake this and
thereby do violence to the social code
of Vienna, it therefore advised him
that lie be left at home. Vienna sOci-
ETY. would not receive him. and his pO-
siiion would therefore necessarily be
hampered and disagreeable, and they
| thought Oh the whole he had better
| not go there; and thought SO too.
That that is the whole of it as appears
from the letter of Mr. Bayard of the
9th day of May to Mr.. McLane, in
which he makes, himself, think, the
only satisfactory Interpretation of
this whole correspondence. He is
directing Mr. McLane TO interrupt
the progress of MIR. Kelley toward
the Austrian dOminIons, aud goes on
| to say:
The Austrian minister commune.
Gated Mr. Bayard's note to his gov
eminent and nothing further had
been heard from him. 1t was not I'M
dcvstood that the Austrian govern
ment had distinctly refused to receive
MIR. Kelley for the reasons stated, but
il holds out the threat of social ostra-
cism, which would make the position
of the minister painful aud perhaps
untenable.
l. nj
according to Mr.. BAyard on the 9th
of May, a social question. That is ex-
acily what it remains now; and it is a
social question, because the only duty
performed by our minister at the
Austrian court, as presume also the
sole and only duties of our minister
at any court, are social duties. &
am glad. therefore, that this case
has ari Ell, not because good man has
been deprived of the salary ola good
Off ce, but because the attention OF the
country has been called to the fact that
we pay a large sum of money to keep
up service which is purely Ornamen-
tai. l say ''Ornanenta ] can not
even say so much as that. Ii what
nave he ard about the attire of the peO-
plt botu SVuu tOdus anu tuCib
general performance at the various
capitals to which they are accredited
be true, then, to ''my uniutored Wis
iOn," should think they were not
even ornamental; certainly they would
not be edifying west of the Mis>is. |
sippi river. In the letter of Baron
Schaeffer to Mr. Bayard of the 18th OF
June the matter is set out distinctly as
follows:
In Austro-Hungary as well as it,
the United States, the con iitutip"
grants entire liberty TO all forms of re- |
ligious worship.
Nothing can be more emphatic than |
that. | believe that to be true, and |
that it is stated for the purpose of SET
ting forth distinctly that no religious
question was involved in this refusal |
10 receive MIR. Kelley.
Baron Schaefier continues:
Our objections 10 MIR. Kelley's APP
pointmeDt as minister of the United |
States TO the imperial court are
founded upon want Of political tact |
evlnced on his part OH former occs
sion, in consequence of which a
friendly power declined to receive !
him
In other words, he had made such
as would make his pres
offensive at Rome, and Austria, deSlr-
ing 10 keep on the good side of Italy.
and remain in that neighbOrly frame
of mind which the contiguity of their
borders naturally enforced; did not
want 10 receive him, aud thought it
best he should not come
And upon the certainty that his
domestic relations preclude that re-
cepiion of him BY Vienna society,
which we judge desirable for the re-
preventative of the United States with
which power we wish to continue the
friendly relations existing between the
two governments"
In other words, in plain English, Mr.
Kelley was appointed to perform some
social duties about the court of
Vienna, and he could no do these un-
less the Austrian emperor should re-
ceive him at the drawing rooms" at
which the nobility aud others of social
standing are received. because the
people who have that standing would
not associate with Mr. Kelley, This
seems, of course, little bit harsh in
This country, where there is no social
of the kind here set up
except at one hotel, believe, at Sara
,oga. i think there is perhaps at
saratoga a hotel where q social dis
inction of this kind is recognized.
md it seems little hard generally. |
,m told. too, that some gentlemen who
rave come over on this side in OFF cial
with domestic relation.
which where not of kind that were
n vogue anywhere in this
country, except, possibly in the
United area of the Salt
AXE Valley, have felt little
pit pu, out that we did not think well
VI these social relations; and there
rave been some iniimations,I have I'M 4
lersiood, at times rather plain, tina, ,
'ersons who came in that way
'ould not be expected to
participate, verv extensively at any
ate, in the social oedinsuces of Wash
ugton. s
think, with the senator from Mis-
ouri, the reason was not very good
ne-that is 10 say, Judging it in :
arge way; but the reason was not
What Mr.. Bayard argued so .trenu-
July and SO very well, and nothing
ould have exceeded the ability of the r
Ii-quisition which he has put forth in +.
his correspondence upon the subject
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