The record-union., 1897-05-25
GENERAL HORACE PORTER.
FOR1ALLY RECEIVED BY MINIS
TER HANOTAUX.
James B. Eustis, the Retiring En-
bassadOr, Presents His Letters OF
Recall to President Faure.

PARIS. May 24.-General Horace
Porter the United States ambassador
to France. was received to-day by the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs,
NJ. Hanotaux General Porter Will
have an audience with President Faure
on Wednesday.
Henry Vignaud, Secretary of the
United States Embassy, to-day present.
ed to M. Hanotaux the members of the
United States Bimetallic Commission,
Senator Edward O. WolcOtt of Colora-
do, Vice-President Adlai Stevenson
of Illinois and General Charles Jackson
Paine of Massachusetts.
THE RETIRING EMBASSADOR.
The retiring United States Embassa-
dor, James B. Eustis, drove to the
EIysee Palace to-day and presented his
letters Of recall to President Faure.
After the ceremony Mr.. Eustis grant
ed an interview to q. representative of
the Associated Press, and gave the
latter his impressions Of France, ex-
pressing his admiration of the French
people, and gave his opinion of the
rejected Anglo-American arbitration
treaty Mr.. Eustis said:
forded me very favorable opportunity
of studying French institutions. and it
has been a most interesting study, as
it has enabled me to contrast the
working of a republican government in
France and the constitutional govern
ment in the United States. There are
some points of dissimilarity. They are
called sister Republics, but as to funda-
mental principles they are not very
closely related. In advocacy Of per-
sonal liberty France has never produc
ed a single great man, the fact being
that no matter how ardent republican
Frenchman may be, and how great
may have been his devotion to political
rights of the people, he does not seem
able to form the slightest conception of
what are known in England and the
United States as the fundamental
rights of personal liberty. They made
a revolution to destroy one Bastile, but
they have many to-day upon the repub-
lican soil of France, owing to their sys
TEN of arbitrary arrests, detentions and
of perquisitions which exist only under
the most aristocratic forms of govern
ment. To an American such a system
would render life intolerable. 1t could
be wiped out in one day, but no one
seems to consider it sufficiently impor-
tant to protect the personal liberty of
the citizens"
LAS you were a member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee what is
your opinion of the rejected treaty of
arbitration between the United States
and Great Britain
Il have always considered it senti-
mental farce 1t is based on the false
idea, in the first place, that the in
telligent processes of diplomacy are in
adequate to adjust differences between
the two Governments, and secondly.
that the amicable process of special
arbitration will not be resorted to
when diplomacy fails. Both of these
assumptions are falsified. even by our
very late experience. and it is a hu-
initiating confession by both Govern
ments to admit that these potent in
strumentalities are not to be within
their reach in the future as they have
been in the past. II, on the other hand
it means that the feeling of hostility
between the two countries is so pro-
nounced that it is necessary to estab-
lish a disciplinary tribunal to keep
them in order and to prevent them
from rushing at each others throats
any permanent tribunal of arbitration
would be brushed aside, and utterly
fail of it's intended purposes"