New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-12-05

Positively eclines to Grant Ex-
equatur to United States
Consul at Harpoot.
'6ROuAD FOR THE SUI FANS REFUSAL.
Permitted Estnblfsh nlent Of United
states GOnAnlatesa nj ErxerOnm wit
=s5 Understandings That Demand for
One ut Harpoot Would he Aban-
Observation-Disclosures Likely.

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States Charge a flares GEiscom
called pom TeWfik Pasha, minister
for foreign affairs, Friday TO urge q
settlement of the difficulty in rela-
ton to the granting Of an exequatur
to DR.. Thomas II. Norton. who some
time ago was appointed by President
Mckinley to establish a consulate at
'Harpoot. The porte. however...is firm
in5its refusal to grant the request for
an exequatur. Il
United States Will Retnliate.
Washington. Nov 26-The Turkish
authorities having refused to grant
an exequatur to DR.. Thomas Ii. Nor
ton to act as United States consul at
date. The freedmen are former slaves
retaliatory measures on the part of
our government in the near future
The Turkish contention now. is that
they permitted a United States con-
sulate to be established at Erzeroum
under an implied understanding that
the United States would abandon its
claim to a consulate at Harpoot.
That there was some shadow of foun
Gation for this understanding IS adj
mitted; out it is still the purpose of
the United States to establish this
consulate because the British govern
ment has since been permitted to
locate consul at Harpoot and. I'M
der the favored nation clause of our
treaty with Turkey, the United States
government claims the same CONNER
cial privileges as Great Britain. There
is, besides, a peculiarly potent reason
for the presence of a United States
representative at Harpoot. for at that
point are located some of the most i'm
portant and 1ourishing American
missionary and educational interests
in Turkey. Moreover. being located
in the Armenian district, where so
many outrages upon Christians have
occurred. it is extremely desirable
that our government should have
some impartial and cre(litable repre-
sentative to protect the interests of
American citizens.
Why the Sultan Refuses.
New York. Noy. 26.-Oscar S. Straus,
minister to Turkey. declines to say
anything about the portes action in
refusing an eNequatur for 4 United
States consul at Harpoot. declaring
that all comment should come from
the state department.
Another American. who has spent
years in the diplomatic service. said:
*The Turkish authorities look with ieal-
ousy upon the appointment of consuls to
interior points in the empire, especially
when, in the present instance, the
United States wishes to send consul to a
point where it has not had a consul before.
''The reason, perhaps, why the Turkish
authorities more specifically object to the
appointment of a consul at Harpoot is
that it was at Harpoot where the American
missionary property was destroyed during
the Armenian troubles, on the loss of which
our claims for indemnity are based. .
America has no commerce at Harpoot
Its interests there are only missionary,
as in that city is located the Euphrates
. college, besides several mission schools
and it is center of the American mission
aries. But 1t can be reasonably claimed
by our government even if we have little
or no commerce now there, that we may
want to cultivate it, especially as a number
OF our citizens are resident there Here
tofore such consular business as the United
States has had at Harpoot has been con.