The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-31
SACKVILLE SHIPPED.
The British Minister No
Longer Recognized.
SECRETARY BAYARD'S LETTER.
TIL. United States Insists Upon Lord
SackvfIIe- VESTS Retirement
Press Comments.

zion OF the Rres1Qent, the SECRETARY VI
State, to-day, informed Lord Sackville
that for causes heretofore made
known to Her Majesty's COY
ernmeut, his continuance in his
present official position in the
United States is NO longer acceptable to
this government and would conse-
quentIy be detrimental to the relations
between the two countries.
The grounds OF this action on the
part of the United States are stated in
the report of the Secretary of State to
the President, dated the Goth, which is
as follows:
"To the President:-The undersigned
has the honor to submit for your con-
sideration the following statement, with
a view to receive your direction
thereon: On the 4th of September
last, a letter purportlDg to be written
by one Charles F. Murchison, dated
Pomona, Cal, was sent from that place
to the
BRITISH MINISTER AT THIS CAPITAL,
in which the writer solicited an express
sion of his views regarding certain di-
plomatic uestions between the United
States and Great Britain, stating, at the
same time, that such expression was
sought by him for the purpose of deter
mining how to vote at the approaching
Presidential election. He said he was
a naturalized citizen of the United
States, OF English birth, but still con-
sidere6 England his mother country
and this fact led him to seek advice from
the British representative in this coun-
try. He further stated that the infor-
nation he sought was not for himself
alone, but to enable him to give assur-
ance to many other persons in the same
situation as himself, for the purpose OF
influencing and determining their poll
teal action as citizens of the United
States of English birth, but who still
regard their original obligations of
allegiance as paramount.
THE LETTER ALSO CONTAINED
gross reflections upon the conduct OF
this government. in respect to the
question now in controversy and un-
settled between the United States and
Great Britain, both directly and indi-
rectly, imputingIthe insincerity of such
conduct. To this letter the British
minister replied. at once from Beverly,
Mass, under date of 18th September.
In reply he stated that any party
who openly faVors the mother country
at this present moment. would lose
popularity, and that the party in power
is fully aware that such is the fact, and
in respect to the question with Canada
which, unfortunately, had been re-
opened since the rejection OF the fish
cries treaty by the Republican majority
in the Senate and by the Presidents
message to which you allude, allow
ances must, therefore, be made for the
political positions
AS REGARDS THE PRESIDENTIAL ELEC-
TON"
The minister thus gave his assent and
sanction to the aspersions and imputa-
tons above referred to. Thus, Under
his correspondence and assurance of
secrecy IN which the minister concurred
by marking his answer private" he
undertook to advise a citizen of the
United States how to exercise the fran
chise OF suffrage in the election close at
hand for President and Vice-President
of the United States, and through him,
as suggested, to influence the votes of
many others. Upon this correspond
ence being made public, the minister
received representatives of the public
press, and in frequent interviews with
them, intended for publication, added
to the infringements which he already
made OF the g.
ann rArTu M rrT,c oovrpu1rpnr
in its public action and international
dealings, although ample time and OPP
portunity had been afforded him for a
disayowRl, modification or correction of
his sentiments, to some of which his
attention has been called personally by
the undersigned, yet no such disavoWal
or modification has been made through
the channels in which his statemsn
first found publicity The question is
thus presented, whether it is compat-
IDLE with the dignity, security and in
dependent sovereignty of the United
States to permit representative of q
foreign government in this country not
only to receive and answer without dis
approval and confirm by the repetition
an aspersion upon its political actio &,
but also to interfere in it's domestic af
fairs by advising
PERSONS Fo RMERLY HIS CoUNTRYMFN
as to their political course as citiz =ns
of the United States, as between this
country and Great Britain there can be
no controversy so as to compel the
severance of the ties of original allie
glance by naturalization. Disputes
upon this point were finally put at rest
by the treaty of naturalization concluded
by the TWO countries on the 18Th of
May, 1870. Therefore, it will not be
contended, nor was such contention
ever admitted by US. that citizens of
the United States OF British origin are
subject IN any way to the claim OF the
country of their original allegiance.
The undersigned has also the honor to
call attention to the provisions of Sec-
ton $685. Revised Statutes of the United
States, by which
SEVERE PENALTIES ARE VISITED
upon citizens of the United States