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Facts Of me Famous Episode Explained in q
hinO toI. Dispatch.

Facts Of fte Famous Episode Explained IN q
Uashin0ton Dispatch.
Washington dispatch: The excite
I ment in government circles, growing
u of the Lord West Hutchinson cor
respondence is still undated. The
facts of the now famous episode are rs
follows:
Mr.. Hutchinson, a resident of Los
Angeles, Cal, claiming to be an Amer
lean citizen of British extraction, some
days ago wrote a letter to Lord Sack
vile West, British minister to the Uni
ted States, asking for advice as to how
he. n native of England, should vote in
the coming presidential election. To
this the British minister replied in O pri-
waite letter advising Hutchinson to cast
his vote for President Cleveland. Lord
Vests letter wa given publicity in the
newspapers and much comment gener-
ally unfavorable to the letter was Gre
atcd.
Secretary Bayard returned to Wash
in9ton tonight and made the following
! statement to q representative of the as
sociated press touching the matter:
Yes, | have read both letters. L
have not seen the British minister since
he went to Europe last spring until he
called on me this morning at the depart
ment of state"
Lord Sackville has no other or better
means OF knowledge of the intentions of
the president than any one of the Co.
000, 900 of American people. His per-
soual opinion is worth no more than that
of any one of them on the ground of
knowledge, and much less on the ground
of interest in the subject.
While there must be cOncenSus of
opinion us to the improperly Of the ex-
preston of individual views by any one
holding the position of foreign envoy it
is still to be hoped we will he able to
settle the issues involved in the pending
canvass without the importation of for
eign interference or intermeddling i'll
our domestic affairs.
"The American people will be prompt
to resent and repel as impertinent any
such attempts, but they will easily rec
ognize the political pitfall arranged by
the California letter with its object so
plainly stamped upon its face and an
dressed to the British minister into
which he has SO surprisingly stumbled.
Such petty schemes to break the fall of
IilC utSl'ulTluS pOlltlClduS Will NC lelt III
proper estimation by popular intelli-
gence."
Minister West was shown the inter
view with Secretary Bayard this eve
ming, and asked what he had to say
about it. He said: ''Nothing. don't
care to c~riticise it. The letter sent from
California was undoubtedly written for
the purpose of entrapping me. Ina few
days [ expect to be in n position to make
public the manner in which the affair
was planned and the identity of the per-
sons concerning it. The efforts which
are being directed to the discovery of
the tricksters were instigated by me,
and [ think [ shall succeed in making
everything plain"
cat your interview with Secretary
Bayard this morning, did you discuss
this matter?" asked the reporter.
sob, yes" replied Lord Sackville;
NATURALLY enough, we alluded to the
matter, but not at any length"
"Did Secretary Bayard intimate to
you this morning the publication of his
views as official?"
81 do not know. said the diplomat,
sthat he has made public any official
~utterances; but" he continued, with
suggestive emphasis, "Iunderstand that
this published statement which you
have shown me has met with the APP
proval of others as prominent politically
or more so than the secretary of state"
This was understood to mean that the
president had sanctioned the secretarY's
action.
''This matter has annoyed you some
what?"
Yes" said the minister. cit has an
noyed me. but only to a trifing extent.
I have nothing to be sorry for, however,
except that [ was trapped. This affair
reveals to me a phase in the ways of the
American politician-ways that in this
instance are distasteful to me. In other
American ways L delight, but 1 would
like to be excused from having anything
to do with politics in the United States"
The cabinet meeting to-day was a long
one, lasting until nearly 3 o'clock. The
British minister's letter was the chief
topic under consideration.