Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-12
THURSDAY. august IL, 1886.
The Cutting Case.

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This case has assumed such . phase
q that everybody will desire to be
posted Is to At least the most important
OF the details. We shall proceed,
therefore, to give these. The tele'
graph yesterday undertook, but failed,
70 give the text OF Article lSG Of the
Mexican Penal Code. That article
reads ~ follows:
"Any crimes that may be commit
ted on the territory Of . foreign State
by . Mexican against MsIicsns or
against foreigners, or by . foreigner
against Msxicsns, may be punished in
Mexico, in conformity with the laws OF
the country. under the following con-
ditions:
IL. That the accused party should
be in Mexico, whether OF his own free
viii or by having been extradited.
80. That proper complaint should
be made by the Legitimate party in case
the guilty person should Re . foreigner.
as. That the accused should not
have been tried in the country where
the crime was committed, or in case he
has been tried, that no acquittsl, am-
nesty, or pardon should have been
pronounced in the matter.
~. That the violation Of which he
may be accused should be considered
. crime both in the country whore it
was committed and in Mexico.
IS. That the crime should be liable,
in accordance with the laws Of Mexico,
to . more severe punishment than that
Of arrest"
Our Government cannot allow the
claim set up by Mexico in the fore
going extract from its penal code. But
the issue has been changed, or will be
changed, from the one involved in the
above-quoted law to the claim that
CUTTING committed not emily in Texas
the offence charged against him, but in
Mexico. Consul BRIGHAM seems to
have acted with the utmost promptness,
and it Was his zeal, no doubt, that led
Mr.. BAYARD to prosecute this COM
plant against Mexico with so much ap.
parent haste-that is, IS compared with
the Secrstary's alleged tardy action in
the csse of the fishermen on our north.
eastern coast. Let it be noted that
under the Mexican Law as quoted above
that country canust punish CUTTING
unless the offence be is charged With be
also an offence in the United States.
The papers in the case are badly
translated. We take it that what is
called . reconciliation in Mr.. CUT.
TING's libellous article is what We in
this country would call not exactly .
"rstraction," perhaps, but at least =
satisfactory explanation. We now
quote CUTTINGS article Is published
in Texas, and, so it is charged, circu'
lated by him in Mexico. 1t is IS fol-
LEWIS:
ADVERTISEMENTS CARD.
Ell PAso, Tex, June l8, 1856.
TO Emigdio Medina, Of Paso del Norte i:
In the late issus Of Ell Centinela,
published in Paso del Norte, Mexico,
made the assertion that Emigdio Me-
dina was . fraud" and that the
Spanish newspaper he proposed to issue
in Paso del Norte was scheme to
swindle advertisers, &c. This morn
ing said Medina took the matter to .
Mexican court, where | was forced to
sign . reconciliation"
Now, do hereby reiterate my orr
gipal assertion, that SAID Emigdio Me.
dina 10 . fraud" and add dead
beat" to the same. Also, that his
taking advantage Of the Mexican lss
and forcing me 10 . reconciliation v
was contemplate and oowardly, and 10
keeping with the odorous reputation Of
said Emigdio Medina. And should
said Emigdio Medina desire " Amsri
can" satisfaction for this reiteration,
will be pleased to grant him al he may
desire, ct any time, in any manner,
A. X. CUTTING.
The Secretary Of State THAT is, o
Foreign Affairsl in Mexico, IGNo
NARIscAL, writes to Mr.. BAYARr
explaining that in Mexico +" the Fsde
raj Executive il unable to communicate
directly with the local authorities o
the States" States'-rights doctrine
prevail In Mexico. and are carried to
great extreme. Mr.. MARIscAL adds
I" Much less could 1t give them orders.
10 DO this would be 90 positive Of
! ftnes," be says. The Judges are " in
dependent even Of the administrative
: power Of the State to which they bs
long" Notice that language: Il is th
same % II We should say here that GU
judges In Virginia were indspsndeu
: even Of the administrative power, of th
State Of virsinia, and that it would b
psspestsrous to suppose that they coal
receive orders from the Federal Gov
srnmsnt. Mr. AARIscAL adds tbs
ths institutions Tor lavs) be has allade'
10 are "in that particular identics
with thoss 10 force in the Uoitsd State
o. America"
A. The case Of Mr.. CUTTING ha'
eess up On appeal. more time will b
ssedsd In order 10 The compilation Of q
fan settlement Of the difficulty. II va
were IN Mexico, and held the sans
opinions W do nov, We should b Ia
aver Of holding on to CUTTING II
thereby UNCLE sAx could b. induced
u eobb's mp Mexico. But the Asxi-
eano ar Of . very different opinion.
1hey consider themselves q good - or
tstlsr than ths people Of the Ualssd
Hates. and 10 doubt oslculsts upon
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