Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-19
HAS NO CLAIM.
Ex-SeCretary Bayard Says Italy
Cannot Secure Indemnity.
The State Department, However, Is
Embarrassed Over the Situation
Feeling in Rome.
BAYARD ON THE SITUATION.

for his opinion of the killing of the four
subjects of the king of Italy at New
Orleans, said:
Taking the newspaper reports OF this event
there is no basis upon which the italian govern
ment can place claim for indemnity. The dis
turbance was purely local and there was
no affront offered to the representatives of the
Italian government Neither was there any
discrimination between the citizens Of the
United States and those of Italy. Bad as il
was. all were used alike.
THE fact is these people are given the same
protection that is afforded TO American citi
zens. The courts are open to them and
judgment is impartial Further than
that the United States has no liabil,
ity. These outbreaks Of violence are a
part of the common risk to which all people
are liable and which II is impossible to prevent.
There is no obligation OF law or custom Of
which / am aware that makes the United
States liable for indemnity OF Teparation in
this case"
WASHINGTON, March IS. - Secretary
Blaine, acting for the government of
the United States, is doing all in his
power to obtain for the Italian govern
ment whatever reparation is due it for
the massacre which was committed in
New Orleans on Saturday, and on the
other hand, Baron Fava, the Italian min
lister, while urging what he conceives to
be the grievance of his government, is
doing all in his power to soothe the ex-
cited feeling of his countrymen, both in
this country and at home; in this coun-
try especially, for it is the Italians in
this country that feel the hurt most, and
here here the violence has been begun
violence is most liable to be continued,
but there is some fear that resent
ment may break out into violence
against Am orleans in Italy. However,
the Italian government will take all
possible precaution against an out
break against Americans in Italy, for
anything of that kind would
have strong probability of re-
sulting in something like war, and
the Italian minister has called
upon all the Italian consuls in
the United States to use every means
to pacify Italians in this country An
organized outbreak of Italian violence
in this country would probably lead,
whatever the authorities might try to
do, to the wholesale expulsion of all
Italians from this country, if not to a
wholesale massacre or toa war of ex-
termination
Baron Fava said ON Monday that Sec
rotary Blaine had up to the present
done all that could be done and he had
no doubt that all that could reasonably
be expected or demanded would be
done by the United States government
to fulfill the conditions of the treaty
with Italy.
The minister has sought and obtained
the best legal advice to be had in WASH
ington. and il is learned that a good
deal of reliance is placed in section /,
article of the constitution. This sec
ton reads:
mo person shall be held to answer for cap
ital or otherwise infamous crime unless on a
presentment of a grand jury Nor shall
any person be subject for the same offense to
be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor
shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a
witness against himself nor be deprived of life
liberty or property without due process of law -"
1t is the last clause upon which the
Italians rely They will hold that
three Italian subjects were in New Or
leans on Saturday deprived of life with
out due process of law. and, while they
will not ask more for the Italians than
is guaranteed to Americans, they will
hold that under this article of the con-
stitution the federal government
guarantees every American citizen
against lynching in any of the states
and that this article gives the federal
government the right to interfere with
the state government in the interest OF
criminal justice.
But then on the other hand the fed
eral government cannot deprive the
mob leaders of New Orleans of trial
by a jury of their peers, and the re-
suit of their trial would probably af-
ford very little satisfaction to Italian
sentiment Article 8, of the constitu-
ton, says:
'The trial OF all crimes except in cases OF i'm
peacnment shall be by jury and such trial shall
be held in the state where the said crimes shall
have been committed"
These conditions guarantee the speedy
acquittal of the men who killed the
Mafians. Louisiana is evidently in no
humor to offer any apologies or any
concessions to Italy, and it is absolute
ly ont of the power of the United States
government to give Italy any satisfac-
ton beyond appealing to the good
sense of the state authorities for the
vindication of the laws and possibly
polite expression of regret to the
Italian government
ROME, March 1s-In the chamber of
deputies on Monday the Marquis di
Rudini, the Italian premier, replying
to a question on the New Orleans
tragedy, said that President Harrison
had recognized the right of ltal-
ians in the United States to
protection from the authorities, and
that he had expressed profound regret
at the occurrence and had charged the
governor of Louisiana TO guard the
Italian residents of New Orleans and to
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