The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-07-21
THE KISHINEFF HORROR.
Powerful Petition Which Russia Would
Not Receive-Frank Refusal Of
the Russian Authorities.

Washington, July 19..-It is stated
by the Secretary of State that the in
cident created by the question of the
presentation of the Jewish petition
to Russia is closed The State de-
partment has made public the cor
respondenoe that has taken place
respecting the petition. It's sub
stance already has been forecasted
in the press dispatches. The cor
respondence consists of an instruc-
ton to Mr.. Riddle, United States
charge daffairs at st. Petersburg, re-
citing in detail the petition and di.
recting him to present the same to
the foreign Office, if it were willing
to receive it. 1t is stated by MIR.
Riddle that the foreign Office would
not receive it under any circum-
stances, and Secretary Hay so in
formed the B'Nai Birth committee
in brief telegram.
The official statement of the facts
is as follows:
The Russian Government has de-
clined to receive or to cons; der the
petition in relation to the condition
of the Jews in Russia signed by sew
eral thousand citizens, and cabled to
st. Petersburg by direction of the
President.
At the conference on Tuesday, the
l4th of July, at Oyster Bay, the
President conferred with Messrs.
Leo N. Lew, Simon Wolf and Oscar
S. Strauss, in regard to the presen-
tation of the petition and decided to
send dispatch to Mr.. Riddle, the
American charge d'affaires in st.
Petersburg instructing him to ask an
audience of the minister of foreign
affairs and to make him a communi-
cation, signed by Secretary Hay,
setting forth the outrages perpetrated
at Kischineff during Easter, 1908;
the possibility of another such out
break at any time in the future, and
asking if the petition would be re-
ceived by Russia.
RUSSIA WOULD NOT RECEIVE 1T.
This was sent on the 18th of July,
and on the same day Mr. Riddle WAS
informed by the Russian minister of
foreign affairs that in view OF publ
cations which had appeared in news,
papers, the Russian Government
wished to notify him that the pro-
posed petition would not be received
under any circumstances, and that
| this resolution of the Russian Gov
ernment was taken independently of
any consideration of the substance of
the petition.
A WEIGETY PETITION.
1t is believed that this petition
was almost unexampled in the weight
and dignity Of the signatures at.
tached to 1t. Among them are
Congressman John Sharpe Williams
of Mississippi; the Governors of Vir
ginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Nortf
Carolina, Louisiana and Nebraska
the Chief Justices of all the State,
from which returns are in; a grea
number of Congressman, publiciets
bankers, Protestant and Catholic
ministers, mayors of leading cities
prominent educators, leaders of tn,
Bar, physicians, scholars, manufac
turers, etc.
! THE PRESIDENT NOT sURPRISED,
Oyster Bay, L. l., July 17.-Pree
ident Roosevelt WAS not SURPRISE
that the Russian Government shoul
decline to receive tho B'Nai Brit
petition or any other representatio
regarding the Kishineff massacre
Tho action of Russia has been fore
caeted unofficially. The informatio
of Russia's declination was receive
here late last night in long tele
gram from Secretary Hay. Towar
midnight the President sent to Sec
retaryo Hay an extended reply.
President Roosevelt has no state
ment to make at this time regarding
the matter. 1t can be said to be ah
solutely unlikely that further effort
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