Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-29
THESAMOA INCIDENT.
Protocols OF the Samoan Conference
Wanted by the House of Congress-.
A Report in Detail Received by Secretary
Whitney-The President May Have Some
thing More to say on the Subject.

AWAITING BISMARCK s EXPLANATION.
LONDON, Jan. 2S.-The Times says
Englishmen will be curious to know the
exact value of Bismarck s assertion that
Germany is absolutely alone in the land
with regard to Samoa. 1t is difficult to
believe that England has given any kind
of approval to the deportation of Malietoa
or to German intervention between
Tamas and Malietoa S partisans.
THE DOCUMENTS WANTED.
WASHINGTON, Jan 25.-ln the house
to-day Representative Ford of Michigan
! offered for reference to the committee on
foreign affairs the following preamble
and resolution:
Whereas, recent dispatches from Vice
Consul Blackjack of Apia, Samoa, to the
secretary of state and accounts III the
public press have conveyed the lntelh-
gence of great indignities offered by rep
resentatives of Germany to American cit
liens and American interests in Samoa;
and,
Whereas, in the correspondence trans
mitted by the president TO congress on
April 2, 1888, touching our rights in
Samoa there appears letter from the
secretary of state TO the British and Ger
man ministers asking the permission of
their governments to make public the
joint protocols of the Samoan conference
held between said secretary and said
ministers in the summer Of 1887, which
permission was refused, and
Whereas, it is alleged the publication
of these protocols would show Germany
has violated treaty rights and obligations
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States
Resolved, by the house of representa-
tives, that the secretary of state be re-
quested to transmit to the house copies
of all such protocols and memoranda of
proceedings of said conference if not in
compatible with public interest.
\ REPORT FROM SAMOA.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Secretary
Whitney 5 mail contained report from
Capt. Mullen, commanding the United
States steamer Nipsic, stationed at Apia,
Samoa, dated December &c, giving q de-
tailed account of the occurrences on
these islands since December 8, the date
of his last report to the department and
covering the period of the engagements
between the natives and Germans and of
all insults to the American flag. a copy
of the report will be furnished to the Sec
rotary OF state, ana Will probably be
transmitted to congress the latter part of
this week, together with the correspon-
dence received Saturday from acting
Consul General Blackjack on the same
subject. The officials refuse positively to
make public at this time any of this cor
respondence combining themselves to the
simple statement that there is nothing in
it that has not already appeared in the
the newspaper account of the same occur
renee.
Representative Herbert, chairman of
the house committee on naval affairs,
called at the state department to-day
and had a conference with Secretary Bay
ard in regard to the situation. 1t is re-
ported as likely that the president will
have something more to say on the Sub /
ject when he sends to congress the COR
respondeuce which has taken place since
his last message.