The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-14
ITALY APT TO GO SLOW.
PoRTER'S DISMISSAL MIGHT ACT
AS A BOOMERANG.

AS a BOOMERANG.
The Popularity That Rudini Might
Gain by so Melodramatic a Coup
Would be Only Temporory-NoL Limit
Fixed by Italy on the Time in Which
Secretary Blaine Was to Answer.
ROME, April 13-Up to noon to-day it
has been impossible TO learn anything
further concerning the report that the
Italian cabinet had decided to request
United States Minister Porter to leave
Rome in case no reply to Premier Rudini's
last note is received from Secretary Blaine
by tomorrow. The officials are reticent
aud the journals are unable to secure def
mite confirmation or denial. At the Ameri-
can legation nothing can be learned. Min
lister Porter has heard nothing except what
he has gained from the papers. In well
informed circles the prevailing opinio n, es
nearly as one can gather. is that the
premier will not proceed to extremities at
this juncture.
WOULD PROVE A BOOMERANG.
tits argued that whatever beneficial effect
such display of vigor might have In in
creasiDg the popularity Of the present
cabinet, 1t must be only temporary, in as
much as II would leave the New Orleans
incident farther from settlement than ever,
while the American government would
doubtless be SO irritated by the Italian
policy as to make any settlement impossible.
While the prevailing opinion thus Is that
the Marquis di Rudini will not take the
rash step reported to be in contemplation.
The report still continues to show some
vitality. Word comes from Paris that the
Journal deS DeSbGtS this morning prints
dispatch from ite Rome correspondent re-
| asserting that the Italian government had
really threatened to give the United States
minister his passports unless Sec
retary Blaine replied by tomorrow;
| respondent was simply repeating the report
in circulation here Saturday, and had no
| further authority therefor.
NO LIMIT FoR AN ANSWER
WASHINGTON, April 13.-But two facts
could be added to the public stock OF in
forma tion respecting the diplomatic entan-
clement with Italy growing out Of the New
Orleans tragedy. One of these was that the
| state department has not received any inti-
| nation from the Italian government that
their last note must be answered tefore a
expected, for the department feels that it is
would be very unusual course for a nation
| engaged In diplomatic negotiations with an
other TO question the motives upon which
the correspondence proceeded.
NOT ANSWERED YET.
The second fact is that Secretary Blaines
| adswer to the Marquis Rudini's last note
| has not yet been forwarded. It was probably
| the secretary's purpose to accompany thh
reply with an official statement touching
the nationality Of the New Orleans victims,
and other correlative facts that
css Tsfs Of expected the frG@ Gepars1oS. saS off oi
justice In New Orleans. These reports have
not yet reached Washington. Whsn they
are received great care must be exercised
| in reducing the facts contained in them to a
| form useful to the diplomatic use, 90 that
unless the secretary is prepared TO Fend his
letter without these facts it is not
| Secretary Blaine had a short talk With the
President to-day, but as the latter was very
busy in arranging other important matters
| before he leaves Washington it is not prob-
able that even this subject, in. which he has
shown particular interest, could be discussed
| with any result.
HARRISON POCKETS THE REPLY.
Secretary Blaine's reticence about bis
reply to Premier Rudini was explained to-
| day when the President announced that the
| latter containing it, which Secretary Blaine
prepared week ago, had not left the
| white house yet on its way to Rome. The
President has been meddling with Secretary
Blaine's diplomacy again. and, taking just
or unjust exception to some phrases in Sec
| rstary Blaine's letter to Premier Rudini,
| quietly pocketed il. and has had Secretary
| Blaine prepare another at his own diotation.
II is not strange that Secretary Blaine
| should have lad another attack of the gout
under the irritation which he has suffered
from the President privately and from the
Italian premier publicly.
SAYING SAVAGE THINGS.
1t is not strange that he is being quoted as
saying even more savage things about the
former than about the latter. The wonder
among outsiders is, Of course, that he does
! not resign, but this, to those who know
Secretary Blaine and his plans, would be
esteemed suicide. He would leave his en-
tire reputation as well as his political future
| in the hands OF his great opponents, the
| President. Maj. Mckinley and Speaker
Reed, by resigning now.
WOULD USE IT AGAINST HIM.
They would make short work of his half
| formed reciprocity agreement, and would
| lay the whole responsibility for the failure
| Of his plans and the fulhllment of his
| promises and prophecies upon the fact that
he was chimerlcal and quixotic. To develop
some measure of success for his purposes he
must still bite his lip and bide his time, but
nothing seems more certain than that be
will leave the cabinet before the present
administration goes out, and it now seems
| more probable that he will resign before the
| Al o,Y1 ate