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WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS DONE.
AS promptly as possible after the lament
able occurrence at New Orleans the Presi- |
dent directed the Acknowledgement to cause
through bis department full inquiry to be
mane ,neo an !ects couhec'eu saere".1n'
inal proceedings would lie under the feder
al laws in the federal courts against persons
charged with the killing of Italian subjects.
He has not yet received the official report. |
If it be found that a prosecution can be
maintained under tho statutes of the Uni
ted States the case will be presented to the
next grand jury, according to the usual
methods of criminal administration. But if
it shall be found, as seems probable, that
criminal proceedings can only be taken in
the courts of Louisiana, the President Can
in this direction do no more than urge upon
che State officers the duty of promptly
bringing the offenders to trial. This was
done in his telegram to the Governor of
Louisiana as early as the 18th Of March.
If it shall result that the case can be
prosecuted only in the State courts of
Louisiana, and the usual judicial investig
alton and procedure under the criminal law
is not resorted to, it will then be the duty
of the United States to consider whether
some other form of redress may be asked.
1t is understood that the State grand
jury is now investigating the affair, and
while it is possible that the jury may fail
to present indictments, the United States
cannot assume that such will be the case
FOREIGNERS NOT A FAVORED CLASS
The United States die not by the treaty
with Italy become the insurer OF tho lives
or the property OF Italian subjects resident
within our territory. NO government Is
able, however hlgh It's CIVILIZATION, however
vigllant its police supervision, however
severe It's criminal code, and however
prompt anu lnueAiole its criminat auHiuis
violence nronnted nv individual malice or
by sudden popular tumu;t. The foreign
resident must be content in such cases to
share the same redress that is offered by
the law to the citizen, and has no just cause
of complaint or right to ask the interposi
tiOn of his country if the courts are equally
open to him for the redress of his injuries
The treaty in the first, second, third and
notably in the twenty third articles, clearly
limits the rights guaranteed to the citizens
of the contracting powers in the territory
of each to equal treatment and to free &C.
cess to the courts of justice. Foreign resi-
dents are not made a favored class. 1t is
not believed that Italy would desire more
stringent construction of her duty under
the treaty. Where the injury Inflicted up
on q foreign resident is not the act of the
government or of it's officers, but of an in.
dividual or of mob, it is believed that no
claim for Indemnity can Justly be made un-
less it shah be made to appear that the
public authorities charged with the peace
of the community have conuived at the un-
lawful act. or, having timely notice OF the
threatened Danger, nave Deen guiley Oh
aary precautions as to amount to conniy.
anc..
FACTS NECESSARY TO INDEMNITY
If, therefore, it should appear that among
those killed by the mob at New Orleans
there were some Italian subjects who were
resident or domcled in that city sgreeably
to our treaty with Italy, and not in viola
ton Of our imm grafton laws, and who were
abiding in thu peace of tho United States
and obeying the laws thereof and of the
State of Louisiana, aud that the public Of
ficers charged with the duty of protecting
life and property in that city connived at
the work of the mob. or upon proper notice
or Information of the threatened danger
failed to take any steps for the preservation
of the public peace, and afterWard to bring
the guilty to trial, the President would, I'M
der such circumstances, feel that case
was established that Ghonld be submitted
to the consideration of Congress, with
Italian subjects who had lost their lives By
lawless violence. Accept, sir, the renewed
assurance of my high consideration.
JAMES G. BLAINE.
From Bait. Sun, April 10Th.
s1cN1E1cANT EEAruREs.
There are several signlhcanG FEATURES 10
the correspondence mace puohc To-Day Id
addition to the dlplomatic argument proper
IN the first place, there shouid % no1eo the
almost aosolnte correspondence Oh the text
OF Rudlnis note Win Ine stasslnehe oi its
contents caolen from Rome Dy Inc Asso'
GATED Press. Ihere are slignt oiHerences
CT verelage between them' CUT tnese are
explained oy the fact that the TRANSACTIONS
OF the Italian dispatch into Enghsa were
made By different PERSONS, and the SUBJ
stance IS precisely alike III e'tnsr case.
Ii will be observed that the Marquis Inn
periali personally acknowledges the receipt
OF MIR. Blalne's letter respecting Favas de-
parturet that vhlle he TRANSMITS hudinrs
views, they are over his own signature. ana
that Secretary Blaine, in his last letter,
(April A. addresses himself to the mar
quis lmpeeriali; These facts may De regard
ed as final evidence that, SO far from Dip
lon1atic relations between the two countries
having been interrupted, they are on prac-
tcally the same footing as il tho minister
had not quilted Washington, for the Mari
quis appears to be oisoharglng the ful-
functions of charge OF affairs, and go as
minister. de received Secretary Blaine's
note last night, Dut It's puoilcation was de-
ferred until today IN order to observe the