The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-23
THE CUTTING CASE.
1t rs Practically Ended, but Mexico WIN Be
Urged to Modify Her Laws.


1t rs Practically Ended, but Mexico win BE
Urged to Modify Her Laws
Washington Special.
Up to a late hour this evening" Assistant Sec
retary of State Porter, who is acting Secretary
in the absence of Mr.. Bayard, had heard nothing
of the reported action on the Cutting case by the
Supreme Court of Chihuahua. He left the De-
partment about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. but il
advices had been received there later he thought
they certainly would have been sent to his hotel.
He was found by the correspondent and ad-
vised of the information reporting the ar
rangement to release Cutting. Governor Porter
said, although he had no official adYices to con.
firm the report. he had every reason to believe
it was entirely true. He had expected for some
time termination of the case somewhat in this
manner, and referred to the fact that both he
and Secretary Bayard have informally expressed
their confidence that the assurances of the Mexi-
can government in respect to the release of Cut
ting would be carried out Just how these as
surances were to be fulfilled they had not known,
but apparently the officials of the State Depart
ment counted upon some device of the kind
which appears to have been adopted
When Governor Porter was asked if this gov
ernment would let the matter end in this shape,
he said very positively that he thought If any
further action was to be taken, it was matter
to be decided by Cutting himself, and must be
mainly of personal character. Cutting, he
thought, might perhaps ask the government to
make demand upon Mexico for redress, but that
would be thing which could easily be settled
without becoming any menace to the peace OF
the two countries In any event, he added,
there was bound to be negotiations between the
two governments in relation to the peculiar legal
doctrine Mexico had set up in assuming extra
territorial jurisdiction Negotiations would
necessarily 60 forward upon that point, as it
would be impossible for the Nation to ignore tina
attitude Mexico has taken in assuming to try an
American citizen for a crime committed within
the jurisdiction of the United States. The de-
partnent would therefore continue, through the
proper diplomatic methods, its endeavors to per-
suade Mexico to repeal all laws rules in any
way involving its claims to exercise extraterri-
torial jurisdiction. This would be upon the
basis that all enlightened nations have aban-
doned such claims, and that the United States
would resist them anywhere and everywhere put
forward.
How Cutting Is Treated THE War Feeling
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LAWRENCE, Kan, Aug. 22.-Mr. Mansfield,
long resident In this city, who carries on heavy
mining operations in old Mexico, has returned
from the Municipal mine, in Sonora which he
left on Tuesday. On Wednesday ne visited
Cutting in his cell, at Paso del Norte. He says
the editor was treated more like guest than as
a prisoner of state. He was lightly guarded,
had the best there was at the prison, and WAS
held as sort of prisoner of state. Mr.. Mans
field thought the Mexican authorities would
have been glad had the prisoner effected his
escape and would have put few obstacles in his
way. He said the war feeling decidedly
on the increase on both sides Of the
Rio Grande 1.-THE war-lke spirit of the
Mexicans" he said, ''arises not SO much from
active hostility to government and to our
people as from their own turbulent condition
and the internal dissensons that are distracting
their people and paralyzing their general gov
ernment. The more intelligent Mexicans, who,
under other conditions, would be opposed to
war, rather favor it now, as they think it will
serve to quiet their own factions and make their
own people united and harmonious American
citizens are treated most shamefully by the
Mexican States and the Mexican general govern
ment Cutting is only the representative of
class. His wrongs are small in comparison to
others, and as a consequence there is bad blood
and red-hot feeling against Mexico on this
sden