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Show HIS UNTIMELY FATE. Tlir Mioottng of (ientral Birmnilia On CoarJ au Ameriran Vessel. THE STATE DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON Will at 0 ice Take Mept Toward an Inrrjtlgation or the Mnrdrr. OPINION OY A LAWYER AND TRAINED DIPLOMATIST. A Clnbrr Dispatch Front (.'ualrmala' Blaaifs the V. S. ThrougTt Jllrnrr's .Icllun. Tnezrapb to la M:irs.I iiinrtrMiifx mi iinrit- TheSInt lleparluseut at ItasblnK tod Rerunl Hllent Ttierenn. WASHiMiToy, Aug. 31. Nothing Noth-ing is yet known at the Stale IV-isrlnietitnf IV-isrlnietitnf Hit ItarnltHlIa escaistic. and the officials decline to express au opinhn a to Its legal or dlplo matle3Hl, but rrom a gentleman here tln Is bill a lawyer and a tmlhel tiiplomati-t, I obtained the folrowliigopinlon: "Uwler tlie law of contraband, as expounded by the very best authorl-tli. authorl-tli. th (iuatemalaii tlliciab had a right t demand and seize the jsr-son jsr-son of General Barrundia, n known enemy of their government even from a neutral viel, while within their Jurisdiction. This herertalnly Tas. being on the steamer Acapvlo la thr liarlvr of San Jose dc Guate-main, Guate-main, awl presumably within n marine league of the shore, which is included in Hie territory orn country. So htr the GuatemaLiu were w llhlit their rights, but for tlie United States minister to lend his lrronal influence an 1 authority lo prnjcctantl facilitate the capture of apolitical rtfugie wlio had sought safely untterthe flag of the country; Hint Mlnbter represented would I an art so Inexcusab'e and so utterly conttniit!ble as to mirit severe coi.-demnrtion coi.-demnrtion from his oftlclal superiors, superi-ors, p roin all sveuunta the caj tain o! the '.tcnMjfco" was not Iisecd lo give General Barrundia up to his enemies, and only yielded n hen he was confronted with the cfiicit.1 order of Minister Mizner. Neatly all civilized nations extend ex-tend the right of asi him to tioHlIcal refugees-, auel If the jub!Mitsl re-parts re-parts are tme, then Minister MIz tier, by his Ignorance or worse, has pLrtsl his Government In a very iimit-ir.ih'e and humiliating st'l-lude. st'l-lude. Another tlusiry of the affair is that Minister Mizner may have tolntcil out to the captain of the '.tcajMtro" the purely legal aspect of the case awl advieel him ml to endanger the lives or his crew an I passengers by resisting too far the dtnu wis of the Guatemalan authorities. authori-ties. If this is tlie course he pur sued, he then only performed his duty. Iiut the tenor of the ili-itcln s do not tend to confirm thb view." LVTEUT KHOM WASIIINI.-TJN. WASHiNcrroN, Augutt 31. The State Defaitment lues taken nieas-urts nieas-urts to secure full ptrtieuWtre of It, rhooling or Oenernl JIarruudIa oa bmr I an American vessel lyln iu tlie pjit "t San Joee by otllcers on the Guatemalan Government, an I uutll the facts and cireunisUncis connected with the atlalrare known It does not caro to txpress any opinion of the case, or of the course of Minister Mizner. A ea-c Involving the Identic! principle occurred in Nicarjgua in ls5, and In that ca Secretary Itav.ir.l informed our Mim-ter t Central America llwt the Nieara.-guau Nieara.-guau Govemneiit had a right to take the mm Waulis! from an American merchant ved, pro Ided she were iu Nlearaguan waters. In a letter dated Guatemala. Fel-ruarylu, Fel-ruarylu, US5, Minister Hall In-rilifsl In-rilifsl Secreta'y Ftvliiiithuyseii tint he had been informed that the Nlraraguan government jirtiOMd to take from on boanl the laclfic Mall steamer 7onrfnra, then lylrg InSau Juan. Dol Sur, a jassenger named Gomea" bound for Panama, but wanted In Nicaragua to answtr to a tharge of ling Iniplieited in a recent iusurretllon. Minister Hall said he hid dlrecttsl our consul at Managua to Inform tlie Nicaragua! government that our government has never consented and never will consent to the arret and removal from an American vessel in a foreign jort or any irassenger in transit, much less ir the oucuse is political. Thu captain ot the vessel did not give up the man, and sailed out rt the tort without securing ntoPKIl CLKAUAM7E !-AI'EI. He was tried and convicted for this by the Nicaraguan authorities. Tho case came before the State Deportment Deport-ment In this. way. He held that MinMer Hall had notacte-daccord. Ing to law. Id his letter to the minl-ter,wh!c.' Li dated March 12. I sw. Secretary Biyanl says; "II appears that Gomez Go-mez voluntarily took jassa-'c oil the vessel, knowing that it would enter en routeaNicarairuaii port. It may safely lieafllrmeil that when a merchant mer-chant vesel of one country enters a fort of another for the urie.r.f trade, It owes temporary allegiance and Is amenable lo the Jurisdiction of that country, and is suject to the laws which govtrn the rt It visits so long as it remains, unless otherwise other-wise provideil by treaty. Anyex-emi.tlon Anyex-emi.tlon or Immunity frum legal jurisdiction must lw derived from the consent of the country." It Is said that cases have frequent ly occurred In which revalutionlsts and others wanted foroUVnsrsof one character or another have been seized by the Hawaiian Government while ou ISritVa merchant ships, and Great Britain has not p-otcted, establishing a diplomatic precedent. The Ilarrundii aiHIr differs frira the other, In that the man was shot, but the right to icizs l-eing conceded, tlie right to kill. If resistance I" made. Is an old-established principle ofliw. The principal criticism made in diplomatic circles r Minister MIz-ner's MIz-ner's cntirse Is that of unneceslary Intcrfcmnrc It Is suggested that he might have simply stated to the Guatemalans that they selzesl the man at their own risk, l-ut the Department De-partment waits exact informa'lon n to what he did dr. |