Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-05-08
BLAINE ANSWERS RUDINL.
The Secretary of States Reply
to the Italian Government.
The Rights of Foreign Residents
Fully Set Forth.

ment at Washington. It consists of Premier
Rudinfs reply to Secretary BIaine's first let
ter. and of Secretary Blaine's reply to Italy's
second demand.
The Secretary's reply, which was the sub
jet Of the conte renee between the PreSi-
dent the Secretary of State and Assistant
Secretary Moore was furnished the Marquis
imperial, in charge of the Italian Legation,
who immediately sent IL by cable to Rome
The salient points of Secretary Blaines
letter, in which he quotes the Marquis
Imperi alTs last note OF April 81 are as Iol-
lows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., April a. 1891.
The Marquis Inpertdki, Charge d4fdir>
SIR have the honor to acknowledge,
receipt OF your note dated Thursday, April
2, 1891. 1t contains second telegram from
the Marquis Rudlnl, part OF which here
quote: The Government of the King of
Italy has asked nothing beyond the
prompt institution of judicial proceedings
through the regular channels. 1t would
have been absurd to claim the punishment
Of the guilty parties without the warrant of
a regular judgment. The Italian Govern
ment now repeats the same demand. Not
until the Federal Government shall have ex-
plicitly declared that the aforesaid proceed
ings shall be promptly begun can the diplo-
matte incident be considered as closed"
This Government certainly had no desire
whatever to change the meaning of the Mar
quis RuGinis telegram of March "a. 1t was
delivered at the State Department by Baron
Fava in person, written in his own hand, and
expressed IN the English language The fol-
lowing is the full text of the telegram
rome, March "a, 1S9l.-Italian Minister
Washington, d. c.: Our requests to the
Federal Government are very simple. Some
Italian subjects acquitted by the American
Magistrates have been murdered in prison
while under the immediate protection of the
authorities. Our right there tore to de-
mand and obtain the punishment of the
murderers and an indemnity for the tic-
Tins is unquestionable. l wish to add
that the public opinion in Italy is justly
impatient, and if concrete provisions were
not at 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.
''RUDINI."
The words underscored are precisely those
which quoted in my former note, and | am
directed by the President to express the sat
isfaction of this Government with the very
material qualification of the demand made
by the Marquis Rudini on behalf of the Ital-
ian Government.
You quote in your note another part of
the Marquis Rudini's telegram of April ?,
in these words:
meanwhile His Majesty's Government
takes note of the declaration whereby the
Federal Government recognizes that in
demnity is due to the families of the victims
in virtue of the treaty in force between the
two countries"
If the Marquis Rudini will carefully e1-
anime my note of April l, he will discover
that did not recognize that an indemnity
is due to the families of the victims in virtue
of the treaty in force between the two coun-
tries"
What did say was in answer to Baron
Fava's assertion that the United States Gov
eminent refused to take this demand for in
m a
ply: The United States, so far from re-
fusing, has distinctly recognized the princi-
pie of indemnity to those Italian subjects
acho mag hare been t0ronged by q UiOIdti0n
Of the rights secured to them under the
treaty a0ith the United States concluded
February 20, 1871"
The Marquis Rudini may be assured THAI
the United States would recompense every
Italian subject who might ''be wrOnged by
a violation of a treaty" to which the faith
of the United States is pledged. But this
assurance leaves unsettled the important
question whether the treaty has been vIo-
lated
Upon this point the President, with suffi-
Gent facts placed before him, has taken full
time for decision. He now directs that GER
tain considerations on-the general subject be
submitted TO the Judgment of the italian
Government. As precedent of great value
to the case under discussion the President re-
calls the conclusion maintained by Mr.. Web
Ster in 1851, when he was Secretary OF State
under President Fillmore.
In August of that year mob in New Or
leans demolished the building in which the
office of the Spanish Consul was located, and
at the same time attacks were made upon
coffee houses and cigar shops kept by Span
ish subjects. American citizens were in
volved in the losses, which in the aggregate
were large. The supposed cause Of the
mob was the intelligence of the execution of
fifty young Americans in Havana and the
Punishment to Spanish mines Of nearly two
hundred citizens of the United States The
victims were all members of the abortive
Lopez expedition
Provision is made in the Revised Civf
Code of Louisiana ARTICLES 2314, 1916 and
1924 for redress of such grievances as the
widows and children of the victims of the
mob may plead.
The Government of the United States
would feel justified in resting on the argu-
ment and conclusion of Mr. Webster if the
mob of March IA, 1891 did not in some of its
characteristics differ from the mob Of 1851.
But it is due to entire canGor, due to this
Government and due to the Government OF
Italy to point out certain differences OF
which the Government Of the United States
is honora bly, bound TO take notice.
As promptly as possible after the lament
able occurrence at New Orleans the Presi-
dent directed the Attorney General TO cause
through his department. full inquiry to be
made into all the facts connected Herewith
and solicited his opinion whether any GRIM
inal proceedings would lie under the Fed
eral laws in the Federal courts against per-
sons charged with the killing of Italian sub
jects. He has not yet received the official
report. If it be found that prosecution
can be maintained under the statutes of the
United States the case will be presented tn