The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-04-22
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Mr.. Secretary of IState,
hasten to aclx knowledge the re-
ceipt of the note which your excel
lency did me honor To address Ia
me on the LIST inst. in reply 10 that
whereby Baron Fava informed you
of his departure on leave.
l have laid the contents of your
eXcellency's note before the govern
ment ofthe King, and his excellency,
the President of the Council, Ills
Majesty's Minister of Foreign
Affairs, has just directed me Ia adj
dress the following communication
TO you:
The government of the King oi
Italy has asked nothing beyond the
prompt institution of judicial pro
ceedings through the regular chan
nels 1t would have been absurd to
claim the punishment of the guilty
parties without the warrant of u
regular Judgment. &Ilie Italian
government now repeats the same
demand. Not until the Federal
government shall have explicitly de-
clared that the aforesaid proceedings
shall be promptly begun, can the
diplomatic incident be considered
as closed.
Meanwhile his Majesty's govern.
ment takes note of the declaration
whereby the Federal governmct
recognizes that an indemnity is due
to the families of the victims in vIr-
tue of the treaty in force between
the two countries.
GSigned IMPERIALI.
HIS E.rceHency James q. Blaine,
Secretary of State:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, April ii, 1891.
Tie Marquis Imperia i, Charged
Af6res, etc, etc, etc.
SIR have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your note
dated Thursday, April 2, 1891. 1t
contains second telegram from the
Marquis di Rudini; part of which
| here quote:
"The government of the King of
italy has asked nothing beyond the
prompt institution OF judicial pro
ceedings through the regular chan
nels. 1t would have been absurd
To claim the punishment of the gull
ty parties without the warrant of
II regular judgement. The Italian
government now repeats the same
demand. Not until the Federal
government shall have explicitly
declared that tho aforesaid proceed.
ing shall be promptly begun can
the diplomatic incident be consider
ed as closed
This Government certainly had
no desire whatever to hamge the
meaning of the Mraqnis di Ru,lini's
telegram of March 24 1t was deliv-
cred at the State Department by
Baron Fava in person.
The following is the full text of
the telegram:
"RoME, March 81, 1891
italian KiniSter, ITdsAington:
Our requests to the Federal gov
eminent are very simple. Some
Italian subjects acquitted by the
American magistrates have been
murdered in prison while under the
immediate protection of the authori-
ties. Our right therefore to demand
and obtain tie punishment ofthe mwrd
erers, and an Indemnity for the rictms
is unquestiOndJke / wish TO add that
the public opinion in Italy isiustly
impatient, and if concert provisions
were not ut once taken should find
myself in the painful necessity of
showing openly our dissatisfaction
by recalling the Minister of His
Majesty from a country where he is
unable to obtain justice.
lSigned. RUDINI.
The words UNDERSIGNED are pre-
cisely those which | quoted in my
former note, and | am directed by
the President TO express the salts.
faction of this government with the
very material qualification of the
demand made by the Marquis Ru-
DIM, on behalf of the Italian gov
eminent.
You quote in your note another
part of the Marquis Rudini's tele-
gram of April 2, in these words:
meanwhile His Majesty's govern
ment takes note of the declaration
where the Federal government re.
cognizes that an indemnity is due
to the families of the victims in vir-
tue of the treaty in force between
the two countries"
If the Marquis Rudini will care
fully examine my note of April l.
he will discover that l did not
recognize that any indemnity is
due to the families of the victims in
virtue of the treaty in force between
the two countries" What | did
say was in answer to Baron Fava's
assertion that the United States
government refused to take this de,
mand for indemnity into considera-
ton. L quote my reply:
"The United States, so far from
refusing this, distinctly recognized
the principle of indemnity of those
Italian subjects, who may have been
wronged by violation ofthe rights
secured to them under the treaty
with the United States, concluded
February 20, 1891"
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