Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-11
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The Tx-Consul Continues His Dressing
Down of Secretary Bayard.

WAsHINSToS. February 10th.-Mr. Sewali. late
Safnosn Committeeman. talked freely TO day in
regard 10 the proposed conference at Berlin
Among other things, he laid . Consider the
genesis o. the conference il is proposed to re-
new. II was summoned by our secretary of
State snd assembled at our Capt. on an ac-
know dyed basis of equality of the rights of
three treaty Powers OF which we were the first
Its object was the preservation of Samoan sutton
omy upon which ell our national and CONNER
eisi iaiVrest in Samoa depends While the con.
tice q disbursement, German ships came to
Samoa ana took possession Of the islands in
VIZ igti' of the understanding on which the
pending negotiations were proceeding. If the
conference is 10 be renewed at all il should be
rene keG under conditions as favorable to us as
those which attended its initiation. The status
ante c0AfTe7diaa should be first restored and
Male oa-for whose deposition we are morally
resi- onsib'e--shouldb lie returned from exile; and
II should meet where it was interrupted and
where our ne representatives would be free from
the peculiar snilueDces now at work at R,rlin
But. were the suggestions OF Bayard in his
lett % The German Minister made conditions
precedent to the re-aSsarabliug OF the confer
ence. we might even then enter upon the con-
ference with eomethingof our national dignity
saved. Bayafd suggests a truce in Sauos but
ne does not .asist'Efson At The. position .raain.
tanned IN the conference by Bayard has rot /
believe been criticised. The independenee of
the Islands eaouid be ama.ntained and The
equally Of the rights of commerce and nars "a
ton secured fos the subjects eff the then trsefv
Powcfs was agreed upon. Our rights are I, II
enla ged by those. but only confirmed: bxt
having secured this recognition OF our rights
Bararh rested. audit is because Of this pending
conference THAI he submitted te a violation 81
these tights that he has been .eriticised-evex
By Bates-upoD whose recommendations Raw
ara entire contention in the conference was
based
Sayard did not resent this action OF Ger
many. accompanied est was BY the ruin of our
trade and ot'trages npor our citizecs and flag as
oad as those which have recently stirred the
country. IL suffered q violation OF those rights
which be was tie first 20 clearly assert. and
because thus our prestige slas been is,etrieyably
weASened IN the Pacific, that Bayard is crit
lciSe : Had Baysrd, through the President
calisol me attention OF Congress and the country
20 the German action, the same sentiment
which Is now aroused would long since have
sKeFted the distressing condition OF affairs that
IoT contnonts Us in Samoa an6 renders difiituit
--ont NJ the same time aeceSary-fafther nego-
t2sl9ns. Nobody desipas war which L not
necessary. aud nobody proposes annex sfion.
SewaNl was asked II he knew ANYTHING OF Mr..
coleman, the Charge a. Aiiaires at Berlin, who. il
Is stated IS 70 conduct our negotiations.
HsGeplied. Il 90 not. only thes Prince R.s-
marss speaks highly of hiEa-"