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Show TIlC BUCNni.JX.TrEK, Senator rall'a Itrolntlon XJerla aritti jtuett ror. City or Mexico. Sep- Senator Sen-ator Call's resolution in the Senate relating to the Barrundla affair has caused a favorable Impressloii here, tbe people now believing thai the United states will take mea-siites mea-siites to redress what is considered hero as an iu,ult to I'J Hag; and cause the Guatemalan government to i-ay a large Indemnification to tho widow of llarrundla. The CrIktkU eajs the sum should be $r,000,00i), and tbe stain on the Hag should be washed cut also, lutlu another way. New Yvkk, Sept 5 Janir A. Whltnev, a prominent republican and one" of the most Vmluent Inter national lawyers in the country, waa Interviewed Vt-4cnlaT on the killing of rlarrundkt and said that the case was very definitely settled by treaty relations between thin country ami Guatemala, proclaimed July2s, li52. Ilesaid: "I refer to the fourteenth article of that treaty. This article, though somewhat involved in-volved In style, is fec'Jy clear in meaning. it is as, SOI.Lows: " 'It shall be lawful for clUzcns of the United Slates of America, and of the republic of Guatemala, to sail with thetr shits with all mau-nei mau-nei t lli-ertranu sccurit, no dls-tineiio!, dls-tineiio!, being made as to wlio are proprietors of the merchandise laden tlierern, from any port to rts of Ibo-e woo are now or hereafter here-after (hall lie at enmity with rhher of the contrSatiug lartles. It la ;rred in like manner that Uie same lift rty b extended to the persons who are on bouJ a free ship, and that although ;y have been enemies ene-mies of both or thher party, they are not to Ixi taken out- of the free shlpuulers they are ottlcers or soldiers sol-diers and in the actual service of Uie enemies.' "Vou will see from tins that absolute ab-solute HUrty nnd security was guaranteed by treaty to Burundia and that be was JusUfied in taking oaa; upon an American steamer from one ouutry to another, even Uiough he was fully aware that during dur-ing tbe voyage Ox steamer would ueceKirily slop at an Jnterraedi !o Guatemalan port. He Was nelllicr an officer nor ri soldier, within the technical meaning of the term, as applied to Uie treaty. Furthermore, hewxsnot liable to lawful arrest, tsscsuse he was not ill the actual service ser-vice of an enemy of Guatemala. lie was In fact a political refugee. HisoCen-, if there were any, was a aiiely political oIfene. It has Lven the settled policy of the country coun-try to refuse under any circumstances circum-stances to tlcUver up political of-finJers.' |
