The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-05
What Mexican officials Say. :

| CRY OF MEXICO Aug. popular sentiment
has been so thoroughly aroused here over the
editor Cutting case and the press comments
thereon that the representative of the Associated
Press called to-day at the Castle of Chapultepec
to get the views of President Diaz and Senior
Romero Rubio, Minister of the Interior, who is
visiting at the castle. The latter said that ne
was happy to present the facts in the case to the
press, and entered at once into a very full re-
view of 1t from the beginning He stated Mr..
Cuttings otfense his character and that of Senior
Medina, and went into an elaborate explanation
of Mexico's right to arrest Mr.. Cutting from q
| legal point of view. Mr.. Cutting, said the Min
| ister having been commanded by the court
| to make apology, did so in an Ell Paso
newspaper, but worded it so as to make it really
| an insult to the court. This newspaper, al
| though published in the United States, Cutting
| knew to be circulated in Paso del Norte, on the
| Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and he took
pains to circulate the issue containing the rehec
| tions on@the Mexican court in Paso del Norte,
crossing the river to this side himself to circulate
| the paper. He was thereupon arrested in proper
| legal form and put in jail. He was treated with
| even more consideration than Mexican crirni
nails
| The minister was asked if he thought the
| judge. had acted in good faith. He replied: Il
do; and for that very reason the executive power
| here could not, on demand from the United
States government, set aside the judicial power.
The government here considered that Cutting had
| not only infringed the code of the State of Chi
| huahua, which makes offenses against its citizens
| committed on foreign territory punishable by its
| courts, but had also committed an offense on
this side Of the line by refusing, without giving
| any reason, to recognize the demand of the
judge, using insulting language to that official,
and it clear that the circulating of the state
ment derogatory to the court on this side Of the
river constituted clear case of offense against
| the law.n
Then it is for these reasons that you have re-
| fused to grant an unconditional released"
Eyes, the government here has forwarded
very full report of the case to Washington,
where it has been submitted to Congress"
President Diaz then entered the apartment,
and expressed qualification at meeting repre-
sentative of the Associated Press of the United
States, and extended cordial greeting. The
| President said: II presume you have had
| from Minister Romero Rubio, full ex-
PLANTATION of the case and an abstract
only say that have just received letter from
the Chief-justice OF the State of chihuahua Civ
| ing resume of tue procedure of the court, in
| response to my request"
| The letter YVES then read in full by Senior
! Romero Rubio 1t showed that the State au-
thorities of Chihuahua had exercised every
care in treating Cutting with consideration,
even more the President thought than
was necessary, for he thought it was sufficient
| to treat him as ne would treat Mexican citizen
| i'm prisoned under the same charges.
.tDo you consider. Mr.. President that the
case will lead to troubeV
II have no apprehension of difficulties grow
ing out of such an Insignificant affair, which is
really only quarrel between disreputabie jour
| nalists l think that the United States govern
ment was trife hasty in the
matter, owing, probably, to early, inaccurate
| and one-sided reports have no doubt that the
can Congress, an enlightened body containing
| many excellent lawyers and accomplished states-
men, will lead to calmer consideration of the
matter, and that justice will be done"
The President then went on, az much length,
| to relate various cases occurring on the border
| lines of the two republics, to show how careful
! both governments should be not to act hastily
and on insufficient evidence. "There are" said
| the President, "a class of both Mexicars and
Americans on the border who after getting into
trouble with the law, plead their citizenship to
shield them from the punishment they deserve
| The President also mentioned that the Captain
| Crawford case, where the investigation made by
| his good friend General Sheridan, always ami
mated by kindly sentiments toward Mexico
| proved the shooting was the result of
| misunderstanding on the part OF the
Mexican troops. He also mentioned several
cases in which he had gone further than was alb
pleasant differences with the United States
government The President said he de-
| plored the tone of certain section of both
tho American and Mexican press, adding 'Our
goFernment 10 certainty actinS IN gooa Ialtn IN
this matter. being only DESTROYS of having justice
done. 1t is matter for calm consideration on
the part of the two goverpments, unnfuenced
/ oy the popular clamor He said that it was
ridiculous to suppose, as had been charged in
some newspapers, that the United States gov
eminent was making pretext OF the Cutting
| case to enter war, for the United States would
not have done so without having first got in read
| mess. The President did not believe that the
| American people were hostile to Mexico. He
sincerely hoped that nothing would occur
| to mar the friendship Of the two peo
ment and animated b. kindly sentiments towards