The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-05
MINER HEARD FROM.
Peace 10 Be Formally Declared Next Week
Guarded by Police.

WASHINGTON. Sept. A telegram was
received at the State Department to-day
from Minister Miner, at Guatemala, saying
the forces a;e being rapidly disarmed and
peace will be formally declared next week.
He says nothing of the Barrunda incident
or the reported attacks up II himself.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-James A. Whitney.
q lawyer whose opinions on International law
are Of weight, says: Absolute liberty and
security was guaranteed by treaty to Bar
rundia and lie was justified in taking passage
upon an American steamer from one country
TO another, even though he was aware that
during the voyage the steamer would neces-
Sarily stop st an intermediate Guatem alan
port. He was neither an officer nor r soldier
within the technical meaning Of the term rs
applied in the treaty. Furthermore. if he
had been 10th lie was not liable to
lawful arrest because he was not in
the actual service Of an enemy oi Guate-
mala. He was in fact a political refugee.
His otIense, if there were any, was purely
political 1t has been the settled policy Of
this country to refuse, nnder all circum-
stances, TO deliver up political Of
tenders, and there is no doubt the
language of the treaty was so carefully
restricted TO the officers and soldiers of an
enemy in ACTUAL service. know of no
an officer of the Diplomatic Corps
in assuming command of merchant
vessel and debating to the CAPTAIN what
he stall do, neither am aware of any prin-
ciple or precedent by which diplomatic Of
fetal can assume to direct the surrender from
under the protection Of our flag of any in
diyidual whatever without positive and
direct instruction from the Department of
State.
The following is from letter dated Qua
temala City, August 17th, giving an account
of the battle in San Salvador: casa
RIQnpQ the PLAZA almost lpStrOVpd
and partly sacked, and the town was sacked.
American Consul Meyer was met by Minis
ter Miner who had come from Guatemala
at Libertad. having hid behind stone
bath-tub for over thirty hours while his
house, the Consulate, and the city were
being sacked by Ezeta's men. Miner sent
an officer to the United States steamship
Thetis to demand that the United States
flag. which had been pulled down and
dragged in the streets, be raised and saluted
with twenty-one guns in the presence of all
the American residents, a company of
soldiers and band Gf music. with tue Presi-
dent and all his officers, which was done i'm
medlatelY upon the demand of the officer.
The Consulate was restored to the United
States Consul, with guarantee of all Uffi-
cial privileges"
CITY OF MEXICO, Sept A dispatch
from San Salvador says: General Ezeta is
engaged in forming legal Government for
the Salvador republic, preparatory to de-
manding recognition from foreign powers.
Senator Calls resolution in the Senate e.
lating to the BarTundia affair has caused a
most favorable impression here. a City Of
Guatemala dispatch saws that an American
who has Just arrived there from San Saliva
dor by main wagon road states that every
thing in Salvador in tranquil. Ezeta is at
Santa Ana and has Withdrawn his army of
occupation from Guatemala in conformity
with the terms of the treaty.