Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-07

with Germany are now nccess BILE, and
make her case stronger than IL A. Asst
appeared to be-.
To begin with, Emil Lueders, for
whose imprisonment, under q sentence
Of the HAytian court,the Berlin govern
ment demands An indemnify, while
claimed as q German subject, and as
such inscribed at the German legation,
is really a native Of Hayti and born OF
a Haytian mother. which would make
him a HsytiAn under the law Of the
land.
In the next place. Hayti shows thai
when Count Schw, rin, the German
minister, demanded the instant release
and decentralization OF Lusders, he did
this In a personal audience with Presi-
dent Sam, so violating wsli-estauiisned
international etiquette, which required
him to put his communication iu writ.
i &, anu present it through the foreign
secretary. Cont Schwerln has PLAIN
y overriddsn diplomatic usagss in his
contempt for little Hayi ~ compared
With the powerful empire he represen s,
aid has employed ..the tone OF an
.lt,matnm," as Hayti's circular TO the
diplomatic corps at Port au Prince
Expresses it..
Il will By remembered that the peril
threatened by this arrogant course was
avoided by the timely interpretation of
! our minister, w. +. Powell, who ask d
| tor the release OF Lueders rs nn act Of
. ,urtesy to the United States, whose
interests would suffer from any dis
urbance or threatened bloodsned.
rbis request was granted, . decree Of
pardon being ISSUED on c"ndiuon that
Lueders would leave Hayti At once,
while the right was reserved to forbid
his return.
The chief difficulty seems to arise
from The soverity-uf the sentence i'm
posed on Lueders, that of $500 fine and
y years in prisonment. TINS Is natur
ally regarded as a very heavy penalty
fer his attempt to prevent the police
men from entering his stable to arrest
his o. achman. But 1t appears that a
Hsytian, arrested for the same offence,
received the same sentence. and it 10
further said shat Lueders had been
convicted Of . similar resistance to the
police the year before, and that this
was the real ground Of the severity Of
his sentence.
The note Of Hayti's foreign secre-
tary to the diplomats at Fort au Prince
referred to the excitement over the
Lueders incident. provoked by the
arrogance Of Germany, and said that
the republic had been established At
The cos of very great sacrifices. which
bis co%untrymen were prepared to re-
peat In order to maintain their inde-
pendtnce and the majesty of their
legal administration" We trust, how
ever, that the affair will not reach The
point thus limited at. Germany will.
undoubtedly, claim some indemnity
fpr Lueders. although 1t may not b. so
ex.ravsgant rs that proposed by Count
Schwsrin. His Instructors from Ber-
lin of October 17th, received in reply
to his telegram, were to demand 'im
mediate release, complete ndemnifca-
ton, and punishment Of judges and
policemen" A. Berlin dispatch says
that. with the release secured. only
money indemnity will now DO asked
Perhaps the good Offices of Jul gov
eminent may yet be invited to settle
this matter. Hayti would presumably
welcome them, and Germany looks
with approval on the fact that Mr..
Pawsll procured the release of Lus ders,
and that the little German colory of
perhaps seventy persons was taken
under American protection. Mean.
while, the usual winter inspection<of
Navassa island a6ords a reason for ths
prudent step Of sending the MARBLE
head" to Gulf waters. 49,
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