The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-02-14
SEWALL INVITED TO RESIGN.
BAYARD THINKS HE CAN GET
ALONG WITHOUT HIM.
What the Deposed Consul-General
Has to Say About Samoan Affairs.

What the Deposed Consul-General
Has to Say About Samoan Affairs.
When the president told Harold NJ. Sewall
of Maine our consulgeneral to Samoa, on
Saturday last, that he did not intend to send
him back to Samoa, he thought Sewall
would take the hint and resign Sewall
waited few days to see what the state de-
partment, which had ordered him to remain
here, would order him to do. On Thursday
he received formal request for his resigna-
ton from the secretary of state. The reasons
actuating the president and Secretary Bay
ard are found, first, in the complaints made
against Sewall by Bismarck, and, second IN
SewalIs course before the senate committee
ON foreign relations in opposition to the adj
ministration's policy. ...
Mr.. Sewall said tonight that he supposed
his removal was due to the testimony he gave
before the senate committee on foreign
affairs Speaking of his views OF Samoan
affairs, Mr. Sewan said: Il believe that the
deposition of Malietoa was determined upon
before the conference Of the three powers be-
gan. and that it was the German intention to
carry out the policy it had decided upon re.
gardless of that conference. The purpose OF
| Germany is to secure control OF Samoa In
| defiance Of The solemn and repeated assur-
ance, it has given to our government. FUR
thermore, believe that Lord Salisbury Is
party to this scheme, and that the moVement
against Samoa is only the precursor OF an
| Anglo German attempt to secure supremacy
| in the Hawaiian islands.
~ concur with Mr.. Bates, our late COM
missioner to Samoa, in his published opinion
that Admiral Kimberly can accomplish
nothing under his instructions from the state
department Mr.. Bayard expects Admiral
Kimberly to succeed in doing by protest
what he has been trying, without success, to
do for a year. Does Mr.. Bayard suppose
protest will turn Germany from the course
She has been steadily pursuing? Com
mander Leary and Mullen have protested,
and their protests have been received
with contempt, and does any on
expect Admit al Kimberly will be
rotary Whitney that definite policy should
be adopted in Samoa To send our ships
there with only their present instructions is
| simply to subject II cir officers and men to
humiliation, or, as Secretary Whitney using
i polite term, out of respect, l suppose, TO-
Mr.. Bayard) terms, Irritating conditions, !"
from which their self-respect makes them re-
Secretary Whitney or Mr.. Bates. am the
weakest, and am, therefore, singled out for
Mr.. Sewall said that, whatever his person
al opini n of the attitude Of Mr.. Bayard In
Samoan affairs might be, he had during his
entire term of service loyalty and implicitly
followed the secreta US instructions not
humiliating position. Said he: "As the rep
resentat We Of the government to which our
citiz ms |, oled for prote ton, / was forced
to see indignities inflicted upon them, their
property seizei and their trade destroyed.
had no power, whatever, to give them re-
dress"
In reply to an inquiry as to whether Ger
man aggression had been going on for SO long
a time, Mr.. Sewall said that the recent news
from Sam a, which had SO arous d the coun-
try, was only repetition of what had hap
pened before.
s'Why," said he, "a great stir has beer
made by the arnou cement that martial law
las been declared by Germany in Apia; but
this is not the first time the Gerr'an consul
has declared martial law in force, German
sentries even before the Americans had beer
deprived of their right to joint voice in the
government of the town, had been com
manded to shoot Cuntil deadly men not an
swering the challenge and the notice giving
warning of this was posted in German scrip
only An American banrer had been TORI
down by Germans and trampled on.
''When war was declared against Malietoa
Apia was occupied without notice to thu
Americans. A leading Amer can merchant
standing on his own land was knocked dow
by German sailor who on his return to hi
ship was imprisor ed for not having bayonet
ed the man. / myself was stopped on tn
highway of Apa even before wa
had been declared, and the Off
Ger whose command had taken posses
sion of that part of the town threat
I ened that would be shot if | proceeded
| German sentries were posted around my con
sulate at night. 1t is for testifying to thes
facts presume, that my resignation wa
asked. Is it not natural III t should life
5 with Mr. Bayard in policy-if such it ca'
doneT