Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

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a Dispatch comes from othvA, Canada.
giving an interview With prominsnt oficial,
who says: when Secretary Blaine inspired
ms party organs 10 abuse the British govern
mems Tor alleged neglect and discoursesy in not
inviting the American Republic 10 participate
IN ne Jamaica exhibition be overlooked
moro siaring or willful insult 10 tie
dominion Although . next door neishbor
Canada b not received any advice. oficiAlly
or othsrwise. expressing Q desire on the part
Of the United States that Canada should
participate in the coming worlds fair
at Chicago. II the imperial government were
invited no intimation has reached Ottawa
Thus the dominion department of agricuitur,
s completely at sea respecting what should he
zone. SO Tar no action has been taken and the
chances are that Canadian representation in
Shicago viii b confined 70 private exhibit.
AsuRfRrsH AT rHE STATE DEPARTMENT.
This dispatch was shown 70 officials in the
State Department and created the greatest sur
prise and indignation. A STAB reporter
learned that 30 far from snubbing or insulting
anybody, this government has sent invitations
10 every nation, and that there has been
win aid the fair and which should be rep
resented. 1t h not the custom Of
the government to recognize Canada in any Of
ncial action that II takes, and all communica-
tons intended for its officers are sent TO them
through the imperial government ut London.
This probably accounts for the fact that Canada
has not yet received her notice Of the
holding Of the fair. Il would be quite as
proper for England to send . letter to
the governor Of any Of the states -
Ior TINS government to communicate directly
WITH Canada, or any Of the other provinces.
As An official expressed IL, the great facility Of
mail and Geographic communication Of the
present day is amply SUFFICIENT 10 make ad-
Jacency OF regions Of any importance any
more. The fact that there has been q
Canada is not Q strange one, inasmuch
a. it usually takes long time to get matters
through the British foreign Office. Instances
OF this are furnished in the fisheries CORE
spondence of 1886 and thereabout There Is one
record Of a reply sent to the Department Of
State In response to . letter written November
ID, received on the 18th OF the following July.
The shortest time taken for the sending Of Q
letter through the British foreign Office and the
receipt OF reply from Canada by the same
means is four months.
NO SLIGHT IMAGINED.
Al to the Jamaica exhibition, which opens
next Tuesday, IL is not thought at the depart
ment that there has been any deliberate slight
put upon this government by the British au-
thorities by not inviting us to participate.
Some months ago Mr.. Brown, chiefclerk OF the
department, went south with partyon steamer
Is the guest of Mr.. Plant, the southern fiuan-
cier, and while in the West Indies. ran across
several officials and merchants who asked IL
this government was going to send any exhibits
to the Jamaica exhibition. He said TO them
that the government had not been invited. at
which they expressed the greatest surprise.
After his return he received q letter from a
friend saying that there must be some mistake,
as II certainly was the intention Of his
authorities to invite this government in q for
NAL and official manner. II fact, Mr.. Browns
correspondent went on TO say, he bad heard
directly from the captain general Of Jamaica
that he was going to send an autograph letter
to the President, urging the Representation Of
the United States. A reply was sent to the man
that there had been nothing received, and other
than that there has been no word ct the State
Department
MR. BLAINE NOT RESPONSIBLE.
Mr.. Blaine has not taken any steps toward
the publication of any facts rejecting on the
British government in regard to this matter,
nor has he done anything to indicate that there
YVES any feeling on the part Of this government.
he has not referred to the case in any way The
list OF nations to which the notices Of the world
fair was sent was prepared by the officers Of the
exposition, and it was at their request that
they were sent out on the 18th instant. In
fact, it is the theory Of the State Department,
which il carried out by the terms of the law
that the exposition is not government matter,
but simply an enterprise ON the part of certain
Llinoisians which has received the sanction and
| aid Of Congress.
The dispatch is considered by the Stats De-
partment officials to be . piece OF malicious
misrepresentation on the part Of the official
quoted, and was characterized by them this II.
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