The Wilmington daily Republican., 1891-05-15
EXCLUSION URGED.
That Is the Solution offered by a
New Orleans Committee
TO SETTLE THE ITALIAN QUESTION.

New. Orleans Has as Great Reason to
Dread the Glass of Italians and
Sicilians Who Como to Our Shores
as Had San Francisco TO Dread
the Chinaman.
NEW ORLEANS, May 10. - The COM
mittee of fifty appointed by the mayor
on Oct. 19 last under resolution Of the
city council to the matter of existence
of secret societies or bands of oathbound
nssassins which had taken many lives in
the city, and to devise means and the
most effectual measures of uprooting
these asssssins, submitted its final re-
port, which is substantially as follows:
The irst work Of the committee was
TO obtain a report of assassinations by
Italians and Sicilans, and where the nc
cused escaped for want of evidence.
The results of the Hennessy trial demon
strated to the people that no one was
safe in the city, and that outlaws wero
operating regardless of law. 1t was
only when this fenr grew into absolute
conviction that the people themselves
rose in their might and took the law
into their own hands. The members of
this committee, however, had no con-
nection with nor did they have any
knowledge of it.
The Consul's Breach of Faith.
The report then goes on to show
the existence of the Malta here, md says
the Italian consul admitted the exist
ence OF that society to subcommittee
which called upon him, and promised to
furnish the names of its leaders and
other information regarding it, but at
the last moment declined, claiming that
as it was an xtra-judicial body, he did
not feel justified III giving the promised
information.
The committee suggests the following
MS being needful remedies to stamp out
the evil
To Remedy the Evils.
The regulation of Immigration.
Reform in tho criminal laws and ad-
ministration Of criminal Justice.
A law recognizing the existence Of
bar association, and endowing it with
full power to try aud debar any attorney
whose evil practices render him I'M
worthy of being an officer of u court.
A committee of the grand jury called
on Consul Corte and asked him for the
names of the plotters whom he alleged
had intended TO assinate the mayor and
others, but whose lives were saved
through his mediation. He informed
the committee that he had been misin-
terpreted by the newspapers. He had
that -tls..Ss. strong feeling
among the Italians In all places in
America, and he, like other counsels,
had used his best efforts in the interest
Of peace and quiet.
Exclusion the Only Remedy.
The report concludes: "The only radi-
cal remedy which suggests itself to ms is
the entire prohibition of immigration
from Sicily and Lower Italy. Ii was
found necessary to prohibit Chinese i'm
migration, and congress passed the
necessary law. The danger to Califor-
mia from Chinese was not greater
than the danger from the South
ern Italians and the Sicilians.
We have had long experience with these
people, and that experience has been a
Bad one"
Italy Has Not Proposed Arbitration.
WASHINGTON, May l5.-An official of
the state department, when asked if
Italy had, as stilted by a cablegram
from Rome, made u proposition to sub
init the dispute with the United States
In the New Orleans affair to arbitration,
said that arbitration was only resorted
to when diplomatic negotiations had
completely failed. Diplomatic negotia-
tions with Italy have not yet ceased,
and Secretary Blaine has publicly as
serted his willingness tc consider any
claim the italian government may make
for indemnity, 20 the proposition, it is
Thought, is somewhat premature. The
proposition has not been received at the
state department.