The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-16
PREPARATION IS aS''
The Italian Government Enters
Protest Against the Killing
Of Its Citizens.
Secretary Blaine Calls on Gov
ernor Nichols to Punish
the Offenders.
The Local Authorities Blamed For
Not Preventing the Indig-
nation Meeting.
Funeral Services Held Over the
Bodies Of the Mob's
Many Victims.
Hot Headed sympathizers Call on Their
Native Country to Speak
With Her Guns.
Hot Headed sympathizers Call on Their
Native Country to Speak
With Her Guns.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-Secretary Blaine
tonight sent the following telegram to
Governor Nichols at New Orleans:
ut has been represented to the president
by the minister of Italy accredited to this
government that among the victims of the
deplorable massacre which took place in
the city of New Orleans yesterday were
three or more subjects OF the king of Italy.
Our treaty with that friendly government
(Which under the constitution is the su-
ian subjects domiciled in the United States
the most constant protection and security
for their persons and property, making
them amenable on the Same basis as our
own citizens to the laws of the United
States and the several states in their due
and early administration. The
president deeply regrets that the cit
izens of New Orleans should have SO
disparaged the purity and adequacy of
their own judicial tribunals as to transfer
to the passionate Judgment of a mob, a
question that should have been adjudicated
dispassionately and by settled rules of law
The government of the United States must
give to the subjects of friendly powers that
security which it demands for our foreign
jurisdiction. 1t is the hope of the presi-
dent that you will cooperate with him in
maintaining the obligations of the United
States toward Italian subjects who may be
within the perils of the present excitement,
that further bloodshed and violence may
Q prevented, and that all offenders against
the law may be promptly brought to JUS
tice. JAMES G. BLAINE.
This telegram was the result of con-
ference between the president and the SEC
retary this afternoon. Baran de Fsya. the
Italian minister. had previously called on
Secretary Blaine and earnestly protested
against the killing of his countrymen. de-
manding at the same time protection for
the other Italians in New Orleans.
Baron Fava, in his protest to Secretary
Blaine, said the local authorities of New
Orleans not only failed to prevent the
meeting which had been publicly announced
and was known to be hostile to the Ital-
ians. but also held an attitude purely pas
sive during the massacre. He said he was
obliged to reserve for his government the
right to demand any and all reparation it
judged necessary.
Third Assistant Secretary of State Adee.
speaking of the matter tonight, said:
This case is without precedent in the
diplomatic history of the country. OF
course cannot predict the outcome .nor
discuss it. 1t is not easy to predict what
will be the course of procedure
II cannot see," said ex-Representative
Morrow, of California. 'how this
affair can become an interna-
tional issue. The vengeance of
the mob was not directed against the Ital-
ians as race, but as a band of supposed
murderers, who escaped their deserts by a
miscarriage of justice. 1t seems to me the
only action to be taken is for the relatives
of the dead men to sue the city of New Or
leans for damages on the ground the au-
thorltles failed to furnish proper protec-
ton. 1t was not a race riot in any sense of
the word"