The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-25
TOO CUrE FOR HIM.
The Attempt Of the EOuadoriAn Minister ia
Pull the Wool over RnynIdIn EYra.

rhO Attempt Of the EGuadoriAn Minister Ia
Pull the Wool over Bayard's Eyes.
WARRINGTON, D O., ,June2 MIR. Flores
the ECuadorian Minister here, has caused
to be translated into English and put in
private circulation in this country a dis.
patch OF his TO his Government, giving an
account OF victory over Secretary Bayard,
which he claims to have achieved In the
Julio Santos case.
On the Sd Of February, 1885, the House
OF Representatives adopted unanimously
the following resolution, based upon facts
examined into by committee OF the
House:
Resolved, That the President be request
ed to take all necessary measures to assure
Julio r, Santos, an American citizen now
imprisoned In Ecuador, a speedy and i'm.
partial trial, and to protect him In his life
and property.
The Government Of Ecuador had held
Santos In prison for o good many months !;
1t claimed the right to do so on the ground
that he had forfeited his American Citi.
zsnship, and in answer to the remon.
strances Of Secretary Frslinghuysen 1t had
refused to release him and was reported TO
be proceeding TO con6scate his property.
This was the stats OF the case when the
new administration came into power, and
Secretary Bayard, as soon as be looked
over the papers was satisfied himself that
Mr.. Santos was in fact an American citi.
zen, took up the case vigorously, made a
peremptory demand for his immediate re-.
lease and sent this demand to Guayaquil
In an American man.of.war.
When Ecuador saw that Mr.. Bayard
was In earnest, its President hastily cabled
to Mr.. Flores, then In Madrid, to 20 at
once to Washington, and thus this boast
full person comes into the history OF the
Santos case.
His part In 1t is very brief; for the first
and only thing OF Importance he did In 1t
was to cable his government In great haste
TO release Santos at once. This inglorious
diplomatic pride Of Mr.. Flores, who pro.
ceeded to tell his government, in an otllc.
ial dispatch, that he had saved the ques.
ton OF the citizenship Of Santos by getting
Secretary Bayard to accept his relsss4 as
an act Of graCe-''a concession made at my
request" and "keeping In abeyauCe the
question Of nationality" The truth ought
to be known to 1t; and the truth Is that
Secretary Bayard insisted with Flores on
the immediate release OF Santos as an
American citizen.
Flores, who seems to have seen some
impatient thunder In Mr.. Bayard's face,
thereupon wrote a cable to his Govern.
ment for Santos immediate release. But
before doing this he tried another trick
upon Mr.. Bayard, also in vain. He sug.
gested that Santos should depart from
Ecuador under the protection OF an
ECuadorian passport. The intention Of
this tricky proposition was, Of course, that
Flores might later set up q claim that
Santos, accepting an Ecuadorian passport,
had thereby confessed that he was not an
American citizen.
But Mr.. BAyard saw through this all at
once, and rejected the proposition. SAN
tos must be Internationally released as an
American citizen, and he would not allow
Flores todiscuss the question Of his citizsn-
ship at all,