Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — BLAINE WAS AROUSED. [ARTICLE]

BLAINE WAS AROUSED.

HIS SHARP REPLY TO PREMIER RUDINI. The Secretary Flatly Con trad eta theMarquis, Who Declared that the American Diplomat Made Use of a Confidential Dispatch to Help His Case. Secretary Blaine replied to the dispatch of Premier Rudini to the Marqui* Iraperiali, which was made public in a green book at Rome and telegraphed to. this country. The Secretary is even more sharp in the tone of the cablegram he sent to Rome than before, and distinctly contradicts a statement of theItalian Premier. The dispatch is asfollows: Department of State, | Washington, D. C., May 4, 1891. j Porter, Minister, Rome: A series of statements addressed to the Marquis Imperial! by the Marquis Rudini was telegraphed from Rome yesterday, and was published by the press of the United States to-day. The only part of the Marquis. Rudlni’s communication which this Government de-ires to notice is the one here, quoted, namely, “I have now before me a npte addressed to you by Secretary Blaine, on Anrii 14. Its psrusal produces a most painful impression on me. I will not stop, to lay stress upon the lack of conformity with diplomatic usages displayed in making use, as Mr. Blaine did not hesitate to do. of a portion of a telegram of mine communicated to him in strict confidence, in order to get rid of a question clearly defined in our official documeifts, which alone possess a diplomatic value.” The telegram of March 24, concerning whose public use the Marquis Rudini complains, is the following, which was quoted in full In my note of April 14 to Marquis Imperial!, Cbargo d’Affaires of Italy at this capital: Rome. March 24. 1891. Italian Minister. Washington: Our requests to the Federal Government are very simple# Some Italian subjects acquitted by the American magistrates have been murdered in prison while under the immediate protection of the authorities. Our right, therefore to demand and obtain the punishment of the murderers and an indemnity for the victims is unquestionable. I wish to add that the public opinion in Italy is justly impatient, and if concrete provisions were not at once taken I should find myself in the painful necessity of showing openly our dissatisfaction by recalling the minister of his majesty from a country where he is unable to obtain justice. Rudini. The intimation of the Marquis , Rudini that the telegram in question was delivered in strict confidence is a total error. As a telegram expressed the demand of the Italian government it was Impossible that Marquis Rudini could transmit it in strict confidence. As I havo already stated, it was communicated to me in persou by Baron Fava, written in English by his own handwriting, without a suggestion of privacy, and the tolegram itself has not a single mark upon it denoting a confidential character. I have caused a number of copies of the telogram to be forwarded to you to-day in sac simile. The usual mark for italic printing was used by me under four lines, and they appear in the copies. You will use the sac simile in such manner as will most effectually prove the error into which the Marquis Rudini has fallen. Blaine. It was plain to those who saw Mr. Blaine that he was annoyed by the remark of Rudini that he had failed to conform to diplomatic usages. The Premier also went so far as to accuse the American Secretary of disclosing a confidential dispatch in order to get around a question which the Marquis intimates had puzzled him iu the previous negotiations. The Secretary by this reply has once more placed the Ita - ian Premier in an unfavorable light, and has spoiled his attempl to let himself down easy. This dispatch necessitates a reply from Rudini, and the opinion among Government officials is that it cannot add anything to the dignity of his position or aid in maintaining tho Italian side of the controversy.