The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-09
BRAUN WAS GOING
 BEYOND AUTHORITY Correspondence Relating to Special Agent Made Public BOTHERSOME IN AUSTRIA Caused the Minister at Vienna Much Worry By Ills Franks and Inso-
 enoe Toward Govern ment Officials.
BOTHERSOME IN AUSTRIA

Washington, February S-President Roosevelt submitted to Congress today all the official communications in regard to the arrest of Marcus Braun. a special agent of the department of commerce and labor in Budapest last May, subse- quent to MT. Braun's trouble with Aus tro-Hungarian officials who tempered with his mail. The correspondence was made public in compliance with reso- lution by Representative sulzer
 It comprises scores of telegrams, let ters and statements and reviews the case from the time of the first interfer- enoe with MT. Braun's mail until the punishment of minor Hungarian officials and the termination of diplomatic repre- sentations on the part of the United States. The letter of Secretary Hay finally disposing of the case, follows:
 'Inasmuch as it appears from the cor respondence that Braun was guilty of a highly improper conduct as an official of the United States, engaged in a mis- sion in Hungary in openly attacking 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 inasmuch as Braun has been recalled and the offending petty officials have been reprimanded by the imperial government, the department does not see that it is desirable to press the matter further with the AustroHunga- rian government"
 Storer Reported to Hay.
 On May 15 the Austro-H Hungarian em- bassy in Washington advised the state department that Braun had gone to Hun gary was unfavorably eriticising the Hungarian government concerning immi- grafton and is making through Hungarian newspaper a propaganda for emigration to Canada"
 The note added that Braun claimed an official mission and requested that the United States government stop Mir Braun's procedure.
 On May IS Minister Storer at Vienna reported to Secretary Hay that the Hun garian minister of foreign affairs told him Braun was formerly a Hungarian subject involved In various transactions and speculations and had left unuer cloud with large unpaid debts. had been disorderlv and insolent to the authori- ties that Braun twas Jew ana MT Storer should have known that friction would have inevitably resulted on that account: that the Hungarian government never liked the prominent presence of former subjects who have denationaliEed themselves; that this man had asserted he was an official of the United states and might be but was discovered actihs for private ends; and that 1t was great nitv to have the relations between Amer lea and Austro- Hungary ruffled by the choice of troublesome officials
 May 23 MT. Storer cabled tnst 'ue , Hus trian embassy in Washington had been ,,,str,,rtad to ask for Mr Braun's recall and that the subordinate police onleers who had interfered with MT. Braun would be dismissed and punished.
 On May gS Mir Storer mailed to me state department full report rom Braun Tn this letter Braun said ne Was courteously received by all authorizes hut claimed to have discovered that TOT some days his mail matter had been in tercepted by the connivance of a hotel norter by a government detective to the headouarters of the police and thence to the ministry of the interior of the Hun garian government, and ther opened anu copied He discovered detective scru- ffDizing his letters Tn the nnlSl oillte anu at once denounced his action In strong terms and with many threats.
 Statements By Newspapers.
 MT. Braun exonerated the postoffice or ficials and said upon changing hotels ms mali was not delayed or tempered Wlth. He says the Budapest newspapers print ed a statement given out by the press bu- reau of police of the ministry of the in- terior. according to which the police al legged they had investigated Braun's his tory and had found that In 1896 the as- soeiatielt of Hungarians at Munich com r1unicated an allegation that Braun had absconded to Paris in 1890 and charged him with blackmail in New York In lSs0- 1898, and made other charges.
 Braun alleged that this defamation or his character was printed in every paper in Austro-Hungary as is the custom in official police declarations of this sort. MT. Braun denied the charges against him and said they were examined in 1900 by a commission appointed by Governor Roose- welt of New York, and found to be u1- true. MT. Storer then said the important question was whether the subordinate act ed with the Knowledge of superlors; that Braun had been most indlscreet and of fensive in his interviews, etc; had never presented at the proper ministry any credential, passport, etc, as to coming in an official capacity, but had sought