Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-03
That Regular Judicial Proceedings Will Be
Entered Against Those PrOmi-
neut in the Lynching.
PRAISE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION.
II Time Can Be Secured for the Courts to Proceed in
Regular Order, the Whole Affair Is Likely
to Blow Over.
LATEST EXPRESSIONS OF TEE roRrIeN PRESS
rrvou A STAFF CORRESPONDENT, ,

rFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, April 2-"All is quiet
on the Potomac and the Tiber, and the war
cloud will dissolve faster than il grew.
was the jocular response of high official Of
the State Departmentto-day, to an inouiryby
the correspondent of The DISPATCH. The
letter of Secretary Blaine TO Charged d. Afaires
Imperiali, published this morning, has been
received everywhere here as a masterpiece
of plain statement and, considering the
provocation, of excellent good temper, and
in marked contrast to the hot-headed words
and acts of the nervous Italians.
Apparently it was SO received also at
Rome, for the news comes just as this is be-
ing written, that Minister RudIni has
cabled to the Marquis Imperiali, in charge
of the Italian Legation here, to convey to
Secretary Blaine his qualification that he, iE
his letter, recognizes the principle of indem-
nifty, and that on account of the friendly
tone of his missive and the evident desire of
the United States to do what is right in the
New Orleans matter, no further diplomatic
move will be made until the New Orleans
juries are heard from.
Rudinrs Bluff Is Over.
In other words, if there is no slip in the
assertion that this communication will be
sent to Mr.. Blaine, it means that the Rudini
Ministry has played its little political card,
has made itself solid from Piedmont to Pal
e
good tactician as Mr.. Blaine a very bad
quarter of an hour, and will have the sup
port Of the Malta and brigands of Sicily
from this time to its downfall.
In view of all these point in its favor.
the present Italian Ministry can we'll afford
to refrain from sending war vessels of 80
feet draught to stick in the mud at Sandy
Hook or the mouth Of the Mississippi. The
communication said TO have been cabled to
the Marquis Imperiali, even if it has
reached him, will hardly be presented to
the President or his great diplomatic Secre-
tary this evening. Certainly it has nothing
to do with the Presidents almost abso-
lutte decision of this afternoon, to start as
soon as he can prepare himself on the long
contemplated tour to the Golden Gate.
President Harrison's Move.
The DISPATCH correspondent is assured
that this momentous step was decided upon
by the President all alone by himself, and
without any assurances of his safety from
either Rudini or the Malta, simply and
solely because he knew there was not the
remote,t chance for war. 1t is even said that
he reached his decision feeling that such
Al,z
fears of the timid, as one would think it
possible the Commander-in-chief of the army
and navy would for 4 moment contemplate a
departure from the seat of Government on a
jou-ney to the antipodal end of his dominions
If there was the least speck of war anywhere in
the armament
1t is pleasant to assure the public that the
high officials of the Administration have kept
their heads spenddly all through this distress
ing complication, and were not even scared at
the war waged in the newspapers of all the
capitals of the world. Indeed, the only digni-
taTies who showed excitement and alarm, re-
markable to state, were the members of the
Senate Committee on territories.
Summer Jaunt Arranged.
These gentlemen last winter fixed for them.
selves nice little jaunt to Alaska to begIn of
course, with the first hot month"; and they were
TO go on the cruiser Charleston. Their con-
sternatOn may be imagined when the war talk
began, for naturally, in case of serious work,
the Charleston would not be sent several
thousand miles away from cable communica-
tion to be absent until the return of fall
weather in the United States.
OF this committee. those members who are
in the city are quite iubilant at the peaceful
turn Of affairs indicated by late cablegrams
and the Presidents determination to go West,
and will proceed with the preparation of the
most improved toggery for salmon fishing.
oh it's all blowing over" said the State
Department official already referred to- land
think this will be about the outcome: The
Italians will conclude, as they must. 10 await
the action of the New Orleans iuries. The
grand jury will have to proceed very slowly and
carefully in the matter of making indictments
when several thousand men are involved with
possibly almost equal criminalItv Then the
trial will have to await its order in the Grim
iHal Court. Persons already in prison awaiting
trial cannot be asked to permit their cases to
be set aside in the interests of the lynchers of
the Mania, even to please the Italian Govern
ment.
Italian Case Given Away.
Indeed it,lt be true, as l am informed, that
RuGinl has agreed to await the action of the
court, he tacitly agrees to abide by all of tho
laws delays which potent iE Italy as in
the United States, and SO he gives his whole
diplomatic case away, for before verdict can
be reached the matter will have become a bit
of CrotesQue history. to be laughed at by the
old wives of Washington political society as the
most amusing tempest which has ever struck
them over their teapOts
And suppose the verdict is for acquittal;
what fault the Italian Ministry find with
that? They would not recognize the right of
American citizens to remedy by violence !
wrong verdict of one New Orleans Jury; how
then can they assume the right to avenge by
violence another wrong verdict by another New
Orleans jury?
You SEE we have them on the diplomatic
hip IN every way, unless they proceed to war
Immediately, and in that case | assume the
settlement of the affair will be transferred
from the State to the Navy Department, and
SO l wash my hands of its furthur discussion,
as l know less of guns and war vessels than the
Navy Department does. and that is saving
good deal, though Congress and not the gentle
men of the Navy are to blame for that"
LIGHTNER