The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-09
TROUBLES OF BRAUN
AGENT WHO INCURRED ENMITY OF
 AUsTRO-HUNGARY.
Papers of the Case Disclose That Roth He and Subordinate Hungarian = officers Were Not Without
 M Blame.

ble with Austro- Hungarian officials who tampered with his mail. The cor lrespondence was made public in com piiance with resolution by Represen- tative Sulzer.
 It comprises scores of telegrams, let ters. and statements and reviews the case from the time of the first inter- ference with MT. Braun's mail until the punishment of minor Hungarian officials and the termination of diplo- matic representations on the part of the United States The letter of Se- cretary Hay finally disposing of the case as follows:
 'Inasmuch,sas 1t appears from the correspondence that Braun was guilty of highly Improper conduct as an of- ficiaf of the United States engaged in a mission in Hungary in openly attack ing the Hungarian government in the newspapers and that his antecedents are not such as to require any further action than the proper assertion of the dignity of the United States; and inas- much as Braun has been recalled and the offending petty officials have been reprimanded by the imperial govern ment, the department does not feel that it is desirable to press the matter fur ther with the Austro- Hungarian gov- ernment."
 May 15 the Austro- Hungarian embas- sy in Washington advised the state department that Baum had gone to Hun gary, was unfavorably criticizing the Hungarian government concerning im- migration and lis making through Hungarian newspapers propaganda for emigratfen to Canada." The note added that ~raun claimed an official mission and requested that the united States government stop MT Braun proceedure.
 Left Under Cloud.
 May f6 Minister Storer. at Vienna, re- LIau garian Minister of Foreign Affairs told him Braun was formerly Hungarian subject involved in various transac- tions and specuiations and had lett un- der a cloud with large unpaid debts; had been disorderly and insolent to the authorities; that Braun was Jew, and Mir. Storer should have known that friction would inevitably resulted on that account; that the Hungarian GoV. ernment never liked the prominent presence of former subjects who nave denationalized themselves; that this man had asserted he was an official Of the. United states, and might be, but was discovered acting for private ends; and that 1t was a great pity to nave the relations between America ana Austro- Hungary rufiied by the choice of troublesome official.
 May 23, Mir. Storer, cabled that the l Austrian embassy in Washington had been instructed to ask for MT. Braun recall. and that the subordinate police officers who had interfered with Mr. Blaun would be dismissed and punished. Also, May 23, MT. Storer mailed to inc state Department full report from Braun. In this, Braun said he was courteously received by all authorities. but claimed to have discovered that TOT some days his mail matter had been taken with connivance of hotel DOT ter by a Government detective 10 the head police bureau of the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior and there open ed and copied. He discovered a detec- tive scrutinizing his letters in the hotei office and at once denounced his action in strong terms and with many threats. Mir. Braun exonerated postoffice officials and said that upon changing hotels his mail was not again delayed nor tam pered with.
 Charged With BIacIkmaiI. He says the Budapest newspapers printed a statement given out by the nress bureau Of police of the ministry of the interior. according to which the police alleged they had inyesLgateu Brauri's History and had round that III 1896 the association of Hungarlans " Munich communicated an alegation
  10gO and charged him with blackmail in New York in 1s96-1S9S, and made other
 Braun alleged that this defamation of his character was printed n every pa
 per in Austro Hungary. as IS the GUS tom in official police declarations or tbts sort Mir Braun denied the charges agaInst him and said they were exam ined in 1900 by a commission appointed by Governor Roosevelt of New fofK and found to be untrue MT! .Storer then said the important question was
 whether tho subordinate acted with the
 knowledge of superiors; that Braun had been most indiscreet and onenslVe in his interviews, etc; had never pre- sarfed at inc proper ministry any cre- dentiale passport etc.. as to comlnE in an official, capacity, but had sought notorietv ''as an influential person age" charged with confidential n
 struetions, etc.; and sought to ps ho
 ticed as a person feared by the nun
 garian government .b,. no
 The foreign office asserted thar no sunarior official had knowledge of any tamnering with his mail Mfr Storef
 said also. "Braun is said to have been urging intending emigrants 70 go t0 Canada by the trust line insleau ot New York by the Cunard' o-
 Mr Storer included a copy or po~, po lice order issued DS t"N "a aa,.e autborities in 1892 iustructing omcels to anprehend Marcus Braun. chdIB ed with the crime of fraud. MT SloreI stated that the Hungarian government accepted all responsibillty as ~ S1 idenfitv of this individual with MT Braun. Mir Storer also made rel lereIice tn Statements published by MT. Braun in d Hungarian newspaper that ne knew he never could obtain justice III
 Hungarian court, and consequently h"u no thought of bringing crlmlhal or civil action for the statement PU'- lished concerning him.
 Accused By HaJOs SandOE.
 A letter from MT. Braun to the de- partment of commerce and laoor stateu that his character has been assailCd py Haios Sandor who, he asserted was m close touch with the austro-H Hungar' ian consulate at New York, ana Is- natius Weller, a New York lawyer i who made charges against MT. Braun | to Governor Roosevelt, ..- A.. n.,.
 In a statement by MT. Braun 10 Mn ister Storer he asserted that the an | tagonism dated back to his report on | the New Hungarian immigration law and to 1892 when. as reporter TOT American newspapers he wrote about | Dr. Anton von PalitZchek, commlssloh- CT general of Austria at the Chicago Worlds Fair and Austrian consul General to New York He charged that the action against him was planned by pr. Alexander Selley, councillor or | the Hungarian minister or lhe interior because of steamship interests
 Mir Braun charged that Count Tisza fnspired the conspiracy against him.
 MT. Loomis cabled Mir. Storer that Braun had been withdrawn. The Min ister of Foreign Affairs expressed his