The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-10
DUMBA THE NINTH ENVOY TO BE SENT
 HOME FROM U. s.

HUME nUW US OE Washington. Sept. 10.-Three Brit
 ish ministers, two French ministers, two Spanish ministers and a Turkish
 ambassador, who by their own actions had made themselves objectionable to thish governInen have been recalled
 at the request of the United States in the course of our national history. Since 1793. when President George Washington brought about the recall of Citizen Genet, an overzea1ous min ister from France, the United States has been quick to resent any inter ference by foreign diplomats accredit-= ed to this country in the internal af- fairs of the United States. Genet | came to this country as the first rep
 resentative of the French Citizens Commfttee of Safety, which ran the Republic of France during the period following the execution of Louis XVI. At that time France and Great Brit
 ain were engaged in war and despite the proclamation of neutrality issued by President Washington Genet came here armed with blank commissions
 to be distributed among American cit
 izens willing to fit out privateers to prey upon British commerce. i Because of the aid furnished by
 France during the American War of I independence. and peculiarly because of the fact that France was now fighting for the maintenance of her new born republic, there was just enough sentiment in this country fa-
 voring help for France as to encour- age Genet in his denunciations of the
 American governments neutrality
 stand.
 Launches Stormy Campaign. Landing at Charleston, s. C.. the French4nan Immediately launched | crusade in behalf of privateering ex- petitions. As his progress northward continued his denunciation of Eng land and his criticism of the Ameri-
 can government grew in intensity and rancor. Genetss persistent efforts to
 force his views on the United States government finally resulted in a re- vuIsion of the popular fleeing that had l sympathized with him in the begin ming. President Washington demand ed and secured the envoy's return to France
 In recalling the minister at the re quest of Secretary of State Jefferson l the French government offered to l punish Genet for his action, but this I suggestion was not encouraged by the United States
 Next to violate the hospitality of the United States was the Spanish i minister the Marquis of Cassa Yrujo. who attempted in 1895 to bribe Philadelphia newspaper editor to rep resent Spanish contentious on con troversies between the United States
 and Spain.
 The Spanish Government took the Ehintasof the United States and direct- ed the return of the Minister. As the latter failed to leave, though not deal was handed his passports and ordered
 
 British Minister offends
 Four years later, in 1909. F. J. Jackson, British Minister at Wash lfngton, overstepped the bounds of pro- priety by accusing the United States of bad faith in having accepted from
 his predecessor an agreement which this Government knew the Minister was not empowered to enter into In recalling Minister Jackson the Bri-4 tish Foreign office announced that the British soVerign had acquiesceds but not with any expression Nof dis ! pleasure over his Ministers action. when subsequently, it appeared that Great Britain was likely to continue her legation here indefinitely in the
 hands of a Charge d'Affaires, the Uni lteda States Government served notice lthat it also would withdraw the Amer ] fcan Minister from London, whereup- on the British Government quickly
 sent a new Minister to the United
 States.
 Minister Poqissin from France used l inapertinent language toward the Sec retary Of state in 1849. He was forth
 with handed his passports and noti-
 fled that the United States would deal with the Government of France
 through other channels. France
 promptly disavowed the impotence
 of her representative.
 I In 1855 it was discovered that Min l ister Cramptons from Great Britain IT. -xr-- -. I gagged in enlistfng recruits in this l country for service under the British flag in the Crfrnean war, the actual enlistment should take place in Cana l da after the recruits reached there. 1 M. Crampton got his passports and
 revoked.
 Of particular interest in emphasiz- ing the traditional sensitiveness of the American Government toward any at tempt on the part of foreign diplo- mats to n1eddle in the domestic po1i-
 tics of the United States is the case of Lord Sackville-West, British Minis ter to the United States in 1888 The Minister. being imposed upon by a Republican party worker, was in duced to write letter advising an American correspondent to vote for
 MT. Cleveland at the following cleo l ton. The Minister, was asked to leave.
 and the British Government notified
 of the fact through the American
 Minister at London. Lord Salisbury.
 in replying to this notice, acquiesced,
 but with the reservation that Great
 Britain could not assent to the view
 that a government to which one of it's
 Ministers was accredited could, with or without resason being assigned, solely determine on the Ministers .ac- ceptabiity or retention.
 Replying, Secretary of State Bayard admitted that the British Foreign
 Minister was correct in principle, but
 that circumstance of the case forced his Government to the belief
 that Sackville's5 act constituted an Intentional interference in our dO-