Rock Island daily Argus., 1893-04-03
REVIVEDTHE ISSUE
More Trouble Over a Diplomat
Sent to Austria.
ANTI-sEMITIsM BOBs UP AGAIN

And tho Vienna Omcials Are Reported
to Object to Max Jud-Keiley's Case
Recalled with Bay ards Position in Re-
gard Thereto-A Batch of Gossip About
Omcial Appointments-So Some Reports
Not Encouraging to Applicants-Our
Defense Against Cholera Better Than
Itwa
WASHINGTON. April 3.-Cable messages
from Vienna stating that the anti-semitic
organizations and other bodies in that city
are vigorously protesting against the re-
ception of Max Judd, of Missouri, He
brew citizen of the United States and
native of Austria, nominated and con-
firmed as consul general to Vienna, have
necessarily recalled the Kelley incident of
Cleveland's previous administration in con-
nection with the same country. The anti
semitic feeling played an important part
in the refusal of Austria to receive Minis
ter Kelley and resulted in the practical
suspension of diplomatic relations between
the two countries for over year.
Why Italy Rejected Kelley.
Anthony NJ. Kelley, a citizen of Rich
mond, Va, was first selected by President
Cleveland and his secretary of state. Bay
ard, as minister to Italy, but was declared
account OF some very strong opinions he
had publicly expressed as to the overthrow
of the temporal power of the pope by the
| italian government. Resigning as minis
Ser to Italy, on this objection being made
known, Mr. Kelley was almost immediate
ly nominated as minister to Austria. Here
another and equally fatal objection was
Encountered. McI.ane, then our minister
| to France, cabled Bayari May %, 1885,
| that "Mr. Keiley's position in Vienna
would be difficult II not impossible, in
! consequence Of the fact that his wife was q
| Jewess."
The United States Position;
! TO this fYtimation Bayard replied that
| United States could not constitutionally
| admit, consider or discuss any supposed
disqualification OF it's officers based UPON
| religion" Later in the correspondence
| this objection was supplantcd. according
| to a dispatch from United States Minister
John NJ. Francis, dated Vienna, June II,
| 1855, by the statement of the
Austrian minister of foreign affairs that
'the alleged fact that this (Keiley's) wife
| was a Jewess did not influence the judg.
| ment of his majesty's government in the
premises" but it had been guided by the
fact thai sQ1Eiendsy -government, near
neighbor, had objected to him as TIE
United States representatives at its court.
Bayard Persists in His View.
Bayard, however, persisted in holding
| that the fact that Kelley wife was jew
ess was the controlling influence. In a dis
patch to Baron Schaeffer, the Austrian
representative at Washington, of about
the same date, he said: 1.-The only objec-
tion assigned by Count kalnoky to receive
Mr. Kelley being the religious faith of the
latter's wife was answered by my note of
May IS" The upshot of the whole affair." was
that Kelley was shuuted off to Egypt as
one of the judges of the international court
there, which position he still retains; that
the Austrian minister in Washington was
given indefinite leave of absence, and that
the United States did not appoint another
minister to Austria until the government
of that country itself made the first ad-
vances more than twelve months after
ward
Opened the Question Again.
In view of these facts standing out so
prominently in the diplomatic correspond
ence of the United States, ii is being asked
whether the selection of a Hebrew citizen
of the United States for the important
position of CONSUL general in Vienna was
intended to renew the former cause of dis
cussiun or whether it was merely an acci-
dent.