Arizona republican., 1898-09-07
FOREIGN NOTES
 AND COMMENT.

sfViVO SViVElVESiy Q Count Aunay and his American wife have so many friends in this country that the news Of his election to mem bership of the French senate cannot fail to excite roth interest and satisfac- ton in the United States all the more as it constitutes species Of reparatior fer the gross injustice to which he was subjected shortly before the assassina- ton of President Carnot in being sum niarily dismissed from the diplomatic service
 He held al the time the post Of French minister .plenipoten,iary at Co., pcnhagen. where he was a particular favcri.e of the royal family. President Carnot, who was much interested in the negotiations, which eventually led to the Franco Russian alliance, but who was kert in relative ignorance thereof by the members Of his cabinet, wrote several personal letters about the matter to the Count d'Aunay.
 The envoy very naturally responded to the coInln:il. ication which he re- ceived from the president. One of his secretaries--I think it was the son of the famous scientist Pasteur-tooil IlLon himself to inform the French minister Of foreign affairs, NJ. Casimir- Perier, that tie count was carrying Oi q correspondence direct with the pres ident and for this offense NJ. dAunay vas summarily dismissed from tha dip lomatic seTvi.e.
 It must be admitted in exte2uaticl, of the course adopted by the cabinet in the matte, that one of the chief difficulties with which the European ministers Of foreign affairs have to contend is tn, tendency On the part Of their sovereign or ruler to carry CD correspondence and diplomatic negoti- ftions over tier head and wi.hou. tlieir cognlzance, although in all con stitutional countries it is they who are responsible to the legislature and to the nation for any failure or mistake that occurs.
 So serious $ the trouble caused by his unconstitutional interference in the International relations by the ruler that in certain countries the sovereign is net even permitted to possess any knowledge Of the foreign office cipher code.
 Indeed it is not so very long ago tEat the Italian minister Of foreign affairs was called to account in the chamber of deputies st Rome for having in def ance Of the law on the subject confdeG key to the code to King Hunabert who was enabled thereby to carry CT direct correspondence with his ambas- sadors at [. clin and Vienna and tc give them instructions without the knowledge of the government, or the control cf parliament.
 The minister Ill reply excused himself cn the ground that he had conGded the code to the Ling in a case Of exception al emergentr, and that it was for the first time in over a quarter Of 3 cen tury that such an infraction of the stat ute upon the subject had been com mitted
 The late Emperor Napoleon was like wise addicted to corresponding with his envoys abroad over the head of his ministers, whose orders were in con- sequence ofttimes in direct conflici with those of the sovereign The two Emperors William of Germany, tlle last two czars, the late king of Spain and King Leopold of Belgium, have al laid themselves open to public crit cisnl on the same grounds, end ir times gone by we have the French l-ings, Louis XIV, XV and XVI, eacl ct them carrying on the same kind 0 intrlgues, thf,f,e Of Louis XIV havin: heen revealed <a few years ago in re 1narkable work published by the Du, dBrcglie, and entitled "The Secrets c the King"
 The Count d'Auray was one of tn. most popular diplomats Of the FrencI service, and managed to become where cve, he was stationed as much of a ia vorite as hls charming blonde wife who is daughter of General Berda, cf Berdan rife fame.
 Emperor William. owing to the hub lication by T German newspaper ill th united Stats6 of fac-simile tale graphic dispatch in his own Tanawrit Irg, has just promulgated most elai, crate series ot rules and regulation lh order to prevent any Of bis auto graph disDatcne5 from getting into un authorized hands. His strenuous ef forts to ascertain how the German. American newspaper obtained the i'm periai dispatch which it published ii fac-simile, have signally failed.