The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-01
Stuart Indignant Over
Statements in New
York Papers.
PUBLISHED LIES
BY WHOLE ESALE
.virginian, B2.ck From Trip to
! Europe, sJAes First Detailed
S,ustonf Df Experience With
-gh As Laws and Off
beS ~ - II opeful Of
W Victory.

w ith ltMngled feelings of indigna-
lion oYcr recent statements regarding
liis experience with custom house OFF,
cals in New York, and Of confidence
in his triumphant election to Congress
from tho Ninth District next Novem
btr. Henry C. Stuart came TO Richmond
Yesterday. He left In the evening for
Pulaski. to attend a meeting to be
held to-day of the Ninth District Dem
ocratic Committee and of party work
crs generally to plan for the coming
campaign.
Three months ago to-day. at Bristol,
Mr.. Stuart received the unanimous
nomination for the House of Repre-
sentatives. The prellminaries Of the
contest have been looked after by
friends and party men, and his absence
in Paris for two months. with Mrs.
Stuart in her Illness. has probably not
been hurtful to his cause.
However the time has come. in the
opinion OF the Democrats of the dis
.trict, for the nominee to get Into
the fght himself with his advice and
his personal effort, and they are de-
lighted that conditions are such as
to enable him to return TO the state.
Confident of Success.
Mr. Stuart feels that he is going 10
be elected In this respect he Is filed
Win tHe same spun "AiS.t .AtoSu1"tSS
every one who crosses the New River
into the district and mixes with the
Democracy which for years has been
repeatedly beaten.
Ia statement given to she Time.
DigTatch regarding the payment OF
customs duty on his baggage. MI.
Stuart shows that not only could
there have been no Intention on his
part to evade the law. but that in point
OF fact he could not have done other
wise than he did do.
According 10 the rules SO far as they
were. known to officials IN Paris and
IN the ,tansporta tioa lines. II was nee
essary for Mrs. Stuart and her daugh.
ter 10 be cIassed as non-residents. ~
was only upon his arrival in New
York that Mr.. Stuart was apprised OF
n new ruling. which changed the point
nj Issue. He has not as yet been
able to sec a written or printed state
,nent Of what he naturally calls the
alleged new ruling"
Away Two Years.
Fiis statement, the first complete one
made BY him, follows:
My wife and daughter and govern.
ess went abroad in March. 1908. and
owing to a long illness of my wife
after reaching Paris. they have been
there ever since.
aBefore starting home from Paris
the other day, / first applied al Inc
once OF the American Express COM
many for information as to the customs
reguIations, and / was furnished ny
them with q pamphlet issued pS ths
Treasury Department at Washinslon'
under date Of August ID lsos, ana pro-
,nul lsated by the American consulate
general at Paris, headed Notlce "
Ill, r ,uac contain.
~ aNe latest official regulation on the
s,,,T9s 1T Among other things which
annsared upon this paper were the fol-
io ,...pa I, sscngers should observe that
,ne-a are two forms of declarations,
ona for residents and the other Tor
non residents. These forms VIII oe
distributed to passengers during the
carly part OF the voyage by othcers
OF tho ship
non residents and residents in no wise
affects citizenship. Non-residen are
".Ca) Actual residents OF other cou4''.
tries.
".(b) Persons who have been ABROAD
continuously for two years or more
who elect to declare as non-residentst
s".R esidents are all persons who have
Eheen residents of the United states anu
who have been abroad less than Two
years.
Confirmed by Consul.
"Af fter reading this paper. ! calied.
with 1t In my hand. at the Office u y
the American Consul-General' anu.
stating what understood from tAe
paper as to my wifes status as
4 'non-r resident asked as TO now was was
Ia properly establish the fact OF her
tNaoh a wears.
No intimation was given as to any
change in the customs regulations as !
4 ,lnd erstood them: but on the contrary
i was, later on, Furnished with letter
I, from the Consulate-General certifying
among other things. to my wlfe's
resid ence abroad for over two years
and this letter was attached to the
customs declaration describing her as
q .non-resident,' and delivered along
with that declaration to the customs
Officials
"On the ship, In accordance with
the terms OF the Treasury Departments
Notice to Passengers to which have
lust referred, I was duly furnished by
officers of the ship with forms and
regulations for customs declarations
the regulations being an exact dupli-
y cate of the Notice to Passengers,
with which had already been fur
h nished in Paris.
''According to these regulations. my
wife and daughter. who had been re-
siding in Paris for more than tive
years, not only had the right to de-
clare as 'non-residents, but plainly
could not be brought within the de-
finition Of residents,' as expressly sol
forth In the regulations.
"I accordingly made out a. declara.
tion. of all Of my own baggage, hut
my wife and daughter, being 'non-re.
sidents.' /, therefore, OF course. did not
decIare their baggage, as there was
no customs due upon the baggage Of
mon residents
" Change In Ruling.
pOn arrival In New York was
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