The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-12
BOTH INVITED TO LEAVE
CANADIAN PREMIER WANTS NO
SPANISH SPIES.
Sir Wilfred Laurier Urges the Span
ish Officials to Hasten Their De-
parture, and They viii Sail To-
day-Du Bose Writes clustering
Letter and Abuses the Premier.

Il -
treal tomorrow night by the Dominion
steamer Ottoman, at the urgent re-
quest of the Dominion government. The
request was conveyed through Mr.. n.
G. st. Pierre, @. c., who was counsel
for Messrs. du Bose and CaranZa in the
litigation following the arrest of Detec-
tive Kellert on a charge of stealing a
letter from Lieutenant CarranZa' s
rooms.
On July 8 Mr.. st. Pierre received
from the solicitor general an urgent
summons to Ottawa. In an interview
with the members of the government
he was informed that the United
States objected to the presence of his
clients in Canada, and that the Do
minion government wished, with as
little fuss and trouble as was possible,
to induce them to leave. Mr.. st. Pierre
replied that nothing could be done so
long as the money of his clients in the
Bank of Montreal was held under the
capiaseS issued at the instance of De-
tective Kellert, but that when this
money was released he would see what
they had to say about going. He re-
turned to Montreal and consulted his
clients. Senior Du Bose intimated his
position to Mr.. ST. Pierre in a letter, in
which he stated that he was most anX-
ious to avoid causing any friction be-
tween his country and the government
of Canada, and that, though a sudden
departure would cause him personal
inconvenience and financial loss, he
would unhesitatingly comply with the
wishes of the Canadian government as
soon as those wishes should be Off
cially made known to him. Senior Du
Bose added that no attempt beyond
vague newspaper rumors had been
made to connect him with the letter
stolen from Senior Carranza, and whose
alleged contents formed apparently the
basis upon which his expulsion from
Canada was to be founded.
THE notorious injustice of this per-
secution," Senior Du Bose wrote to his
lawyer, will be only too clear to your
brilliant and legal intelligence
The government wished the Span
iards to leave at once, but the capias
was not quashed until June &c. and on
that very day Sir Wilfred Laurier tel
egraphed, urging that the departure
should take place on Saturday, July 2.
The same day he wrote Mr.. st. Pierre
to the same effect, officially insisting
upon the departure of his client. After
stating that he had been furnished by
Sir Julian Pauncefote with a photo
graphic copy Of the stolen letter, he
continued:
1.-THE letter of Senior Carranza I'M
equivocally states that he has been left
in Canada to receive and send tele-
grams, and to look after the spy sys-
tenn he was then establishing. The ac-
ton of Senior CarranZa is a violation of
the laws of the land, and have there
fore, to request Senior Carranza to
leave this country. 1 have to make the
same request of Senior Du Bose, who,
from evidence in our hands, is an ac-
complete in the establishment of the
spy service, which was organized by
Senior Carranza.''
DU BOSCS PROTEST.
Mr.. st. Pierre communicated the pre-
mier's letter to Senior Du Bose and re-
ceived, on July 2, a letter stating that
they would sail on the next steamer of
the Dominion line In this letter he
wrote: Il must, however, emphatically
protest against the second graph
of Sir Wilfred's letter, in which he
stated that the secretary of state of
the United States of America has given
communication to Sir Julian Paunce-
fote. her majesty's ambassador at
Washington, of the original letter adj
dressed by Senior Carranza from Mon
treal on the 26th of May last, to the
Spanish minister of marine, and placed
IN his hands a Photographic copy of
the same, which Sir Julian has tra2s-
mitted TO the Canadian government
This is completely false. Mr.. Carranza
has given me his word OF honor that
the only letter stolen thus far from him
is private one, addressed to Mr.. Co
mez 1nez, a relation of his, employed
III the navy department at Madrid. This
statement of Mr.. Carranza is corrObOr-
ated by the alleged translation of the
letter, which l have seen published in
the newspapers.
Further, in his communication, Sir
Wilfred permits himself to assert that
From evidence in our hands, Senior Du
Bose is an accomplice in the establish
uent of the spy sarvice which was or
ganized by Senior Carranza' This is a
grave accusation, and one which should
rot be lightly made by a responsible
statesman. 1t will be incumbent upon
Sir Wilfred to prove the correctness of
his written accusation upon a future
occasion.
AS regards the statement in Sir Will
fred Laurier's letter that the action
of Senior Carranza is a violation of the
laws OF the land / can only say that
Sir Wilfred Laurier is equally mistaken
III i::s law and his facts.
The only spy organization of which
L have cognizance is that with which
the government of the United States
has surrounded and dogged me since
ample proof. OF which 1 shall be de-
lighted to submit to Sir Wilfred when
ever he may so desire
within my own comparatively short
official career, there have been three
separate occasions upon which the gov
eminent of the United States has uti-
liked private letters as the basis for
diplomatic representations.
In 1888, the publication of a private
letter fraJJlnlPnflV obtained from he
present Lord Sackville, then her mai
esty's minister at Washington, caused
the retirement of that distinguished
diplomat.
Another private letter, stolen from
the post and published in the United
States, was officially used by the state
department at Washington to compel
the retirement of the late Spanish min
lister. De Lone.
Finally, the present alleged and
stolen letter, written by a friend o.
mine. is employed as means of caus-
ing my expulsion from Canadian soil.
What confidence or credence can be
placed in the representations of gov
eminent where diplomacy is based upon
the utilization of criminal acts l leave
to the consideration of Sir Wilfred
Laurier and the Canadian govern
ment.'
Some delay occurred in the arrival of
this letter at Ottawa, and the govern
ment at once became uneasy. Tele-
grams passed to and fro. Sir Wilfred
I.aurier inquired anxiously, Have
party left?"
The party had not left. Senior Du
Bose. on July 2, expressed his intention
TO leave by the next steamer of the
Dominion line, leaving July 8. He was
unable TO do SO because he could not
obtain passage on her. and Afr. Tor