Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-09
The NEW ORLEANS LYNcHlNe.

THE NEW ORLEANS lYNCHlNG.
Diplomatic Filtration Between Fair Italia
and Uncle Sam-Omcial Correspondents
Made Public-The italian Minister to SEQ
Rotary Blaine and the secretary's Reply.
WASHINGTON, April 2-The follow
ing correspondence between Secretary |
Blaine and Baron Fava was made pub
lie by the department of state last |
night:
ROYAL LEGATION OF ITALY, WASHINGTON, |
March 3I-Mr. Secretary of State: By my /
two notes of March Is and IS had the honor |
to call your excellency's serious attention
to the occurrences of exceptional gravity !
which took place in New Orleans on March |
II, whereby four subjects of the king of |
Italy, who were confined in the prison OF |
that city, were massacred by the crowd |
under the leadership of two American citi- |
zens.
After having formally protested against |
the unjustifiab!e conduct of the local author
tiles, who were evidently recrcant to all |
their duties on that occasion. reserved to |
the government of his mai sty the right to |
demand such satisfaction as it might think |
proper since the occurrences in question |
constituted a patent violation OF the stipula- |
tions of the treaty In force between our two
countries which secures to Italian subjects |
residing in the United States the same pro-
lection that is enjoyed by American citizens
and which has always been extended to the
latter in Italian territory.
The reparation demanded by the gov
eminent of the king, AS have had the honor
to inform you in onr interviews held during
the last few days, were to consist of the fol-
lowing points:
First-The official assurance by the federal
government that the guilty parties should
be brought to justice.
Second-The recognition, in principle, that
an indemnity is due to the relatives of the
victims.
Your excelIency was pleased to declare to
4l,ofo foil al n NOT
think that it could take this view of the case
| it declined to take the two aforesaid de
mands into consideration.
Under these circumstances the govern
ment of his majesty, considering that the
legitimate action of the kings minister at
] Washington becomes ineff1cacious, has or
dered me to take my leave
In obedience to the instructions which
! have received have the honor to announce
| to your excellency that am going to leave
| Washington speedily as possible leaving
the Marquis lmperali, his maiesty's secre-
| tary of legation, in charge of the current
| business of the royal legation.
| Be pleased to accept Mr.. Secretary of
State, the renewed assurance of my highest
| consideration FAvA.
| His excellency, James G. Blaine, secretary OF
| state, Washington. ID. C.
| SECRETARY BLAINE's ANSWER.
| The Marquis ImperiaIi, Charge d'Afaires,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WASHINGTON. d. c.,
! April I, IS9l-Sir: 1 have the honor to
| knowledge the receipt of a note of yester-
day date, from Baron Fava, who has left the
Italian legation in your charge. beg to ex-
| press the sincere regret with which the gov
| eminent of the United States re- cevcS the in
| telligence of Baron Fava's speedy departure
| from the capital Though he has more than
| once intimatcd this purpose, the govern
| ment of the United States has been unable to
| see adequate reasons for such step. The
| baron's service here for the past ten years
| has been distinguished at all times by the
l 1nSfQ "a 10 rnl 1f wi "a
| department of this government. The regret
at his leaving is enhanced when. as the presi-
| dent believes, he has been recalled under
| misapprchcnsiOn Of facts by the govern
| ment of Italy.
The cause Of his sundering his diplomatic
! relations with this government is thus given
| in his note: 1.-The reparation demanded by
| the government of the king, as 1 have had
| the honor to inform You in our interviews
during the last few days. were to consist of
the following points: First, the official as
surance by the federal government that the
guilty parties should he brought to Justice;
second. the recognition. in principle. that
an indemnity is due to the relatives OF the
victims''
Fava is slightly changed in phrase from that
| employed by him in his many verbal re-
quests based upon a telegram from the mar
quis Iii Rudini which lie left with me. The
marquis di Rudini declared that Italy's right
to demand and to obtain punishment of the
murderers and an indemnity for the vict inns
is unquestionabie 1t Is inferred that
| Baron Fava'S change of phrase meant
no change of demand. I have endeav-
ored to impress upon him i'm the sew
eral personal interviews with which
| he has honored me that the government of
the United States is utterly unable to give
the assurance which the marquis has de-
handed Even if the national government
had the entire jurisdiction over tho alleged
murderers it could not give assurance to any
foreign power that they should be punished.
| The President is unable to sec how any gov
eminent could justly give assurance of
! this character in advance OF q trial and 4
| verdict of guilty"
| In the constitution OF the United States it
is declared that lin all criminal prosecutions
the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury of the
state and district wherein the crime shall
have been committed" 1t needs no argu-
ment to prove that a jury could not
to any degree, bound before the trial of the
, | accused by the assurance which the prcsi-
dent of the United States had ventured to
| give to foreign power.
| In the constitution of the state of LOuisi-
ana, under whose immediate jurisdiction the
crimes were committed, substantially the
| same provision is found, SO that the govern
or of that state would be as unable to give q
| pledge in advance for the result of n trial
under state law as the president would be
| were it practicable to try the leaders of the
; mob under the laws of the United States.
| In Baron Fava'S second point he demands
= the recognition, in principle, that an indem-
, nifty is due to the relatives of the victims
He is assuredly under a grave error when
, he declares that the United States govern
ment declined to take this demand into con-
sideration, and shall reg ret if he has COM
muncated such conclusion to your gov
. ernmcnt. The United States, SO far from re-
fusing, has distinctly recognized the princi
pie of indemnity to those Italian subjects
who may have been wrongcd by a violation
of the rights secured to them under the
treaty with the United States of February o.
1871.
have repeatedly given to Baron Fava the
3 assurances that. under the direction of the
president, all the facts and incidents con-
nected with the unhappy tragedy at New
Orl' ans on March II last should be most
! thoroughly investigated. 1 have also in
formed him that in matter of such gravity
= the government of the I'm ted States would
not permit itself to be unduly hurried, MOI
, will it make answer to any demand until
l every fact essential to a correct Judgment
t shall have been fully ascertained through
3 legal authority The impatience of the ag-
grcvcd may be natural. but its Indulgence
does not always secure the most substantial
Justice.
3 Accept. sir. the assurance of my b gu con.