The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-14
NO TIDINGS OF ITATA.
She Certainly Cannot Be Seized
As a Pirate.
MEXICAN OFFICIALS WATCHING.
If the Runaway Puts Into Port She
Can Stay Twenty four Hours.
After the Transfer OF Her Cargo to the
Warship Esmeralda the Charleston
Can Do Nothing Tae Orders Given
to Pursuing Cruiser Very Explicit.


came only TO consult with tie district at
torney. Supercargo Burt to-day gave s., ,0o0
bail and will be released from custody.
IouIoug, May 13.-Today the monitor
Huascar, the gunboat MacalIanes and
transports arrived in the bay from Caldera
and Antofogasta, with three battalions of
troops under command of Lopez Friao and
Valenzuia. The troops numbered about
/ 800 men. and after landing paraded the
streets and were received with great en-
thusiasm. Senior Manuel Jose Irararzaval
has been appointed minister of the in
terror.
CRY OF MEXICO, May 13.--The govern
ment has given strict orders to port au-
thorities on the Pacific coast to report the
appearance of any Chilean or other war
ships. 1t will be difficult TO get news, as
government wires have to be relied on al
together. The general opinion here
is that the Itata and convoy will
double up on the Charleston. The
government has ordered the gun
boat Democratic TO keep a sharp lookout
for the vessels. 1t is rumored here that a
private teiegram mas been received an
nouncing that fishing schooner yester-
day saw the two vessels out at sea of the
coast, going at full speed. One was sighted
at 10 a. m. and the other at p. m, but so
distant that fishermen were not able to
distinguish them.
The AngIo-Americnn newspaper publishes
ar rumor OF the sinking of the Itata by the
United States cruiser Charleston, but gives
neither time or place. The authorities
here say they have no information what
ever concerning the matter.
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longer a tenable claim that the Itata may
be seized as a pirate. 1t is recognized that
she can be recaptnred for violation of the
custom laws, disregard of the court, and
perhaps for kidnapping. but any assump-
tion that she is pirate is completely mega
tived by the doctrine laid down by
the late Francis Wharton. formerly
solicitor of the department of state and
an eminent authority on international
law. This doctrine was accepted by Sec
retary Bayard and laid down at the time
of the Colombian rebellion and Panama
trouble. The Colombian government had
declared insurgent vessels TO be pirates, as
the Chilean government has done, but the
secretary held that the government of the
United States cannot regard as piratical
vessels manned by parties in arms against
vessels are passing to and from
ports held by such insurgents,
or when attacking ports in possession of
the national government. In the late civil
war the United States at an early period of
the struggle surrendered the position that
those manning Confederate cruisers were
pirates under international law. The
United States of Colombia cannot sooner
i1fa do. oth ho- ba
views. But, however this may be, no neu-
tral power can acquiesce in the position
now taken by the Colombian government"
Another fact which may be of interest,
in view of the expected arrival OF the Itata
at a Mexican port, probably Acapulco, is
that she cannot stay there. Under the
practices of international law the Mexican
government could not refuse TO protect
her, but she could not remain in port more
than twenty-four hours. as 10 do so
would subject her to a charge of using
the port as base of operations against a
friendly government. So if the vessel
reaches Acapulco before the Charleston,
the latter vessel would have simply to wait
outside the port for twenty-four hours to
get an opportunity 10 retake the Itata and
her stores, provided these have not in the
aida. -
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.-The Post, in an
article on the Charleston's pursuit of the
Itata, claims that Captain Remy was in
structed to capture the Itata at ali hazards
and return her to San Diego, and the in
structions even outlined the Charleston's
course, directing her. after leaving San
Diego, TO steer along the coast in straight
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prominent point of land on the Peruvian
coast, some miles north of Iquique. The Post
adds: 1t is the United States governments
purpose TO prevent the Itata from landing
in Chile the munitions of war she is sup
posed 10 have on board, and whether the
Charleston captures her near the
Hawaiian islands or in Peruvian waters
il matters little, but the war vessel, accord
ing TO the governments judgment, will
stand a better chance of success by making
straight course and waiting for her
victim at Payta.
This morning United States Marshal
Long received dispatch from United
States Marshal Gard. of the southern dis
trIct. instructing him 10 subpoena Harry
y. Morse, of the detective agency, and 10
have him leave at once for Los Angeles,
where the grand jury is awaiting his testi-
mony il the case OF the schooner Robert
and Minnie for violation of the neutrality
laws. Morse went south in the interest of
the government, and was with Marshal
Gard when the schooner escaped into
Mexican waters, although the license OF
Captain Farrell, her master, explicitly
limits the waters in which the schooner is
allowed 10 ply to the coast waters of Cali
fornia-
PARIS, May I3.-The Sieclc today says
that in spite of the rupture of negotiations
between President Balmaceda and the
congressional party of Chile. France, the
United States and Brazil intend 10 fulfill
arbitrsting the matters in dispute between
the two contending factions. The Steele
adds that this task viii beundertaken with
every prospect Of success.
NEW YORK. May l3.-Cables 10 Flint &
Co. from Valparaiso state that several
directors Of the revolution. whose names
recently appeared affixed 10 so-calIed de-
crees and manifestos OF the insurgents
given out from Paris, are known 70 have
gone down with the Blanco Encalada
nearly month ago.
A Rebellion in Hayti Feared.
NKw YoES. May 13.-Advices received