Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-08-09
THE CUTTING CASE.
secretary Bayartl Indignant 1t Recent
Publications.
BE SAYS he IS NOW DOING IN THE CASE WHAT
The TREATY REQUIRES TO BE DONE.

HE SAYS HE IS NOW DOING IN THE CASE WHAT
The TREATY REQUIRES TO BE DONE.
STAR reporter called on Secretary Bayard
at the State department to-day with relation to
the Cutting case. There are no new develop
ments In the case just at this moment but ne
EQUATIONS are still going on, and satisfactory
settiement OF the matter is evidently expected
at the department. Our treaty with Mexico
provides that every effort be made to effect the
peaceful settlement of any difficulties that may
arise between the two countries before resort
Ing TO hostilities. These efforts are being made
by Secretary Bayard. The Secretary expresses
himself with indignation at the efforts being
made to make party capital out of the matter,
and at the many misstatements afioat. He re-
ferred TO the official correspondence to show
mat the implication credited to Represe ntative
aa MI. mat his (Bayard's) :ietter misstated the
Here you will see for yourself" he said,
etter Se Mfh
nation OF the department.. Mr.. Bingham, the
consul at Paso del Norte, was judge, served on
the bench ably. and is man of experience and
ability, as represented to the department by
ms endorsers ut the time of his appointment.
ne says in his letter to the department: Before
an interpreter. both of which he requested
Again he says: Il proceeded to the office of the
oihclal interpreter of the court to ascertain the
sSact sS cnarseS against Mr.. Cutting, and was in
iormed that he was arrested for the publication
in ElPaso CIexas) Herald: that he was examined
upon this charge alone and committed TO Jail
on the same He states further that
the judge never deigned reply to his
(the consuls) communication, and that
bail was refused Cutting, though he
was prepared to give it in any reasonable
amount. The consul general indOrses what
Consul Bingham says. Cutting makes affidavit
that the judge notified him that he would be
held to answer the charge of having published
the card In the Texas paper. There Is the afI-
davit OF a. A. Daguerre. He says: Il know
that he was arrested tor publishing a card in
FL Paso Texas Herald June 1S, 1886. l was
present In the court room and heard the Judge
announce these facts. The Judge stated
emphaticaly that Mr.. Cutting was not in Jail
ior contempt of court, but Tor the publication Of
the card in the Ell PaSo Herald The affidavit
OF II. u. Turner states that he (Turner) was
present in the court when the judge announced
that Mr.. A. X. Cutting had been arrested for
publishing an article in the Ell PasO Herald 1"
In his letter to Minister Jackson, Secretary
Bayard says: "Mr. Romero produced to me the
Mexican laws. article 1S6, whereby jurisdic-
t1On Is assumed by Mexico over crimes commit
TED against MexfcanS within the United States
or any other foreign country; and under this he
maintained the publication OF libel in Texas
was made cog nizabe and punishable in Mexico.
And thus Mr.. Cutting was assumed to be prop
erly held
You will see by this that our information
is said Mr.B .Bayard to THE STA R man "that Mr..
cutting was arrested for the publication in Ell
Paso. Texas. You see what the treaty says that
We shall do. We are now doing it,