St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-03
GUYED BY GREASERS.
The State Department Treated With scant
Courtesy by the Mexican
Government.
4 Demand for the Release of Cutting
Meets With Point Blank
Refusal.
Even the Promise of Granting the
Prisoner a Speedy TriaI1
Broken.
Warm for the Assassins of
RaSureS.
The Cutting Case.

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resolution of the senate asking for informa-
ton concerning the alleged illegal detention
of A. K. Cutting by the Mexican authorities
at Ell Paso Del Norte, the president trans
United to the senate to-day the report of
the secretary of state, together with
voluminous mass of correspondence relative
to the case. Under date of July l, United
States Consul Brigham at Ell Paso Del
Norte forwarded to United States Minister
Jackson at Mexico full statement of the
facts attending the arrest and Imprisonment
of Cutting, and an announcement of
his (Brigham's) failure to secure any re-
ply to his application for a fair trial
or the release or bail of Mr.. Cutting.
On July the United States minister
sought from NJ. Marescal, the Mexican
secretary of foreign affairs, proper relief
for Mr.. Cutting. The following day NJ.
Marescal replied that he had recommended
the governor of Chihuahua to see that
prompt and full justice was administered.
On July II Consul Brigham stated that
Cutting was still prisoner and nothing
had been done for his release. The Secre-
tary says that the imprisonment of this
American citizen having thus continued for
full month explanation or prospect of re-
lease, he (Secretary Bayard), on July 10Th,
addressed telegram to Minister Jackson
mstructiug him to demand of the Mexican
government the
INSTANT RELEASE OF A. K. CUTTING.
This was followed on July 20 by in
struction of the secretary to Minister jack
son reciting all the precedent correspond
snce and facts and stating the legal posi-
lions assumed by this government as a
ground for demanding the release of its
citizens. Minister Jackson OH July % tele-
graphed the refusal of the Mexican govern
ment to accede to the Geographic
demand of Secretary Bayard for
Cuttings release, which was followed by
another telegram giving statement of the
July 20, teIgraphed that the governor of
chihuahua was pushing the trial of Cutting.
who ignored the proceedings. On July 81,
the secretary mailed additional instructions
to Minister Jackson. The secretary in this
letter refers to the claim of the Mexican
minister here
BASED ON THE MEXICAN LAWS
whereby jurisdiction is assumed by
Mexico over crimes committed against
MeXicans III the United States or any
foreign country, and his contention that
under this law the publication of libel in
Texas was made recognizable and punish
able in Mexico. This claim of jurisdiction
by Mexico was peremptorily and positively
denied by Secretary Bayard vino declared
that the United States would not
assent to or permit the existence
Of such eXtra-territOrial force to be
given to Mexican law. Mr.. Romero. lie
SAID. finally assured him that Cutting would
be released in a very short time Convinced
Of the friendly and concilatory spirit i'll
huencing the Mexican government the sec
rotary informs the consul that in his opin
ion, all questions of conflicting interests
between the two governments can without
difficulty be eQuitabiy. h0norably and salts
factorily adjusted In his report the secre-
tary says, touching the Mexican laws cited
by Mr.. Romero:
This conflict of law is even more pro-
found than the literal difference of cor
responding states, for it affects the under
lying principles of security to personal
liberty and freedom of speech or expression,
which are among the main objects sought to
be secured by the framework of government.
The present case may constitute precedent
fraught with
THE MOST SERIOUS RESULTS.
The alleged ofenSe MAY be and undoubtedly
in the present case is, within the United
States held to be misdemeaner, not of high
grade, but in Mexico may be associated with
penal results of the gravest character. An
act may be treated by Mexican statute an
ofense of high grade which in the United
States would not be punished in any degree.
The safety of our citizens, and all others law
fully within our jurisdiction, would be
greatly impaired, if not wholly destroyed, by
admitting the power Of q foreign
state to define OffenSes and apply penalties to
acts committed within the jurisdiction of the
United States. The United States and the
states composing this Union contain the only
forum for the trial of offenses against their
laws and to concede the jurisdiction of Mex
leo over Cuttings case, as is stated in Consul
Brigham's report, would be to substitute the
jurisdiction and laws of Mexico for those
Of the United States over offenses COM
mitted solely within the United States
by citizen of the United States. The otfense
alleged is the publication in Texas by citizen
of the United States of an article deemed
ibellous and criminal in Mexico. No allega-
ton of its circulation in Mexico by Mr.. Cut
ting is made, and indeed no such circulation
was practicable or even possible, because
THE ARREST WAS SUMMARILY MADE
on the same day of the publication in the
English language in Texas, on the coming of
the alleged writer or publisher into Mexico,
and the Mexican correspondence accom-
panyiIg Mr.. Marescars refusal to re-
lease Cutting found in the accompanyments
to Minister JackSons dispatch of July 22,
1886, shows that the one hundred and eighty
sixth article of the Mexican code is the
RTOuuO VI JuIlSulCllOu dS CldlIu0u. UUQcf
this provision it Is obvious that any editor Or
publisher of any newspaper article within
the limits and jurisdiction of the United
States could be arrested and punished in
Mexico if the same were deemed objections
BILE to the officials of that country, after the
Mexican methods of administering Justice
should he be found within those borders.
Aside from the claim of eXtraditiona power
thus put forth, the laws of Mexico and ex-
tending their jurisdiction over alleged
committed within the borders of the
United States are to be considered
the arbitrary and oppressive proceedings
which, as measured by the constitutional
standard of the United States, destroy the
substance of judicial trial and procedure TO
which Mr.. Cutting has been subjected"
In transmitting the document to congress
the president in brief communication says:
''As to the inquiry contained in the resolu-
ton whether any additional United States
troops have been recently ordered to TT.
Bliss? / answer in the negative" The pa
pers were referred to the committee on foo
eign relations.
THEY ARE GETTING INSOLENT.
Ell PAso, Tex, Aug. 2.-Several days
ago the Mexican authorities said that Cut
ting would receive his sentence last Satur-
day, but the promise was not kept. 1t is
now said by them that sentence will be
pronounced next Wednesday to a certainty.
The populace of Ell Paso Del Norte
has become very insolent toward
all Americans. They seem to think the
United States has backed squarely down,
and that it is sign of conscious weakness.
IT is reported that well informed Mexicans
say that if Texas was left out Mexico could
the remainder of the United States very
easily.
GOV. IRELAND IN EARNEST,