The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-17
Secretary Blaine to governor Nichols.

WASHINGTON, March Is. = Secretary
Blaine tonight sent the following telegram
to Governor Nichols at New Orleans:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, March Is.
To his excellence, Francis F. Nichols, gov
erhor Of Louisiana, New Orleans:
ut has been represented to the President
by the minister oil Italy accredited to this
government. that among the victims of the
deplorable massacre which took place in
the city of New Orleans yesterday, were
three or more subjects of the King of Italy.
Onr treaty with that friendly government,
(Which under the constitution is the
supreme law of the land), guarantees to
Italian subjects domiciled in the United
States the most constant protection and
security for their persons and property,
making them amenable on the same basis
as our own citizens to the laws of the
United States and several states, in their
due and early administration. The Presi-
dent deeply regrets thai the citizens of
New Orleans should have SO disparaged
the purity and adequacy of their own
Judicial tribunals as to transfer to the
passionate Judgment of mob, a question
that should be adjudged dispasSionately
and by the settled rules of the law. The
government Of the United States must give
to the subjects of friendly powers that
security which it demands for orr own
citizens when temporarily under foreign
jurisdiction. 1t is the hope of the Presi-
dent that you will cooperate with him in
maintaining the obligations of the United
States toward Italian subjects who may be
within the perils of the present excite
ment, that further bloodshed and violence
may be prevented, and that all offenders
against the law may be promptly brought
to Justice. JAMES G. BLAINE"
This telegram was the result of confer
ence between the President and secretary
this afternoon, Baron Fava, Italian minis
ter, having previously called on Secretary
Blaine and earnestly protested against the
killing of his countrymen, demanding at
the same time, protection for other Italians
living in New Orleans.
Baron Fave, in his protest to Secretary
Blaine, said the local authorities of New
Orleans not only failed to prevent the
meeting which had been publicly an
nounced and was known to be hostile to the
Italians, but held an attitude purely pas
sive during the massacre He said he was
obliged TO reserve for his government the
right to demand any and all PREPARATION it
judged necessary.
The third assistant secretary of state,
Mr.. Adee, speaking of the matter to night,
said: This case is without precedent in
the diplomatic history of the country. OF
course, l cannot predict the outcome nor
discuss it. II is not easy to predict what
will be the course of proceedings"
81 cannot see," said ex- Representative
Morrow, OF California, "how this affair can
become an international issue. The ven
gence of the mob was not directed against
the Italians as race, but as a band OF sup
posed murderers who escaped their deserts
by the miscarriage of justice. 1t seems to
me the only action to be taken is for the
relatives of the dead men to sue the city of
New Orleans for damages on the ground
that the city failed TO furnish proper
protection. 1t way not a race riot in
anysense of the wordn