Year: 1874

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THE RESPONSIBILITY.


1t is self-evident that the responsibility for
the absence Of these documents rests, first of
all, with the former chief of the Legation. ],
therefore, demand from Your Excellency an
official explanation as to your knowledge of
these missing documents, and that you return
forthwith to the Foreign Office those of the
inclosed list which may still be in your pos
session,


For the Imperial Chancellor.


v. BULOw.
To His Excellency the Royal Intimate
Counsellor Count Won Arnim.


ARNIM TO BuLow.


Arnims lengthy and exhaustive answer in
which he declines to give the official explana-
ton demanded by the Foreign Office, on the
ground that he had no longer the honor of
holding official relations with the Chancellor.
has already been published in the HERALD.


BULow TO ARN1M.


BERLIN, August S, 1874
The reply to my letter of July which Your
Excellency kindly addressed, under date of
the 21st, to the undersigned State Secretary
as private communication, could only be
received and treated as an official document.
The view expressed by Your Excellency that
your relations to the Foreign Office had en-
tirely ceased is not in harmony with the law
relating to imperial officials, whose applica-
bility in this instance is self-evident, and has
also been freely admitted by Your Excellency.


ARNIM's DUTY.


Your Excellency was temporarily retired
by the most high imperial order OF May Is,
and consequently obliged, under penalty of
losing your waiting salary" to accept an
imperial Office which might be conferred
upon you under the legal presumptions.
Until these have been graciously transferred
by the imperial government to another de-
partment or until the most high authority
ordains your dismissal from the imperial SER
vice Your Excellency remains-what you were
up to your retirement-an official of the
Foreign Office, hence subjected to it's official
supervision and disciplinary power. Even if
Your Excellency had not chosen to accept
the legal waiting salary" incident to your
retirement, or to claim it any longer, there
would have been no change in your relations
to the Foreign Office, except that by the most
high order of the Foreign Office, the services
of Your Excellency had been temporarily
| dispensed with.


OBEDIENCE NECESsARY.
This view Of the position of retired official
Of the Empire has been acknowledged in
theory and practice since the publication OF
the law relating to imperial officials and
placed beyond doubt by the law itself in
fact, even by the paragraphs "a to 11s, quoted
by Your Excellency. We're your view the
correct one then section 119 would overthrow
it, as an official of the Empire cannot be freed
from his relations to an authority to whom he
is subject in disciplinary point of view
Your Excellency will moreover, consider that
sections 20 to 81 of the law in question
explicitly recognize the retired officials as
s'oficials" in the most diversified relations.
neither recognizes officials other than
Officials Of the Empire" nor does it recog-
nize officials not subject to an authority re-
sponsible to His Majesty the Emperor. When
Your Excelency hints that you are merely at
the disposition of the Emperor, our most
gracious master, without recognizing an
authority between. then an examination of tho
imperial constitution as well as of that Of the
Kingdom of Prussia will convince you that
every official is, first of all, subordinate to the
responsible Minister, respectively to the Chan
cellor of the realm. And the authority with
which the retired official maintains these rela-
tons is and remains-until most high order
provides differently-the former authority of
the official.


STILL ANOTHER DOSE


The Foreign Office regrets to be compelled
to add another reason why Your Excellency is
legally prevented from considering your indie
pendence as not being restricted by your
former subordinate relations.


Your Excellency did not consider it ne
cessary, when you left the mission which had
been confided to you, to transfer the archives
to the temporary Charge dAffaires and to