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Show CORRESPONDENCE Conctmla-; the Killing of ('caenl Bammd'a, Before the lion. STANLEY RELATES THE BARTTE-LOT BARTTE-LOT STORY. Brntil Assault of Oxford Stndonti upon Sa-calltd Freshmen. Fresh-men. interesting archaeological discovery in india. Parnell Saji the Charge or O'ihra Wat Without Foaadaliea la Fact. .' Tele-TSra to tb, Nnrs.1 TIIE B1BBC-C8I1 APl'AIB. Tb, Prealdrnt fiabmii Th, Cor-mpondence Cor-mpondence To Tne Iloaar. Washington, Dec. 5. ThePrcsI-dent ThePrcsI-dent today transmitted to tbe House tbe correspondence growing out of the killing of General Barrundla by the Guatemalan officer on board the Pacific mail steamer Anapul-co, Anapul-co, In the pott of San Joe. Secretary Secre-tary Blaine in tho letter laying tbe correspondence before the President, says It III be observed that tbe but reiiort of Minister Mizncr contains matter essential to a full and accurate ac-curate undenttnuing of tbe case and was dated September 23rd, and not received at the department until un-til October 9;b, several days after the adjournment of Congress. THE OOrtHESrONDKNCi: consists of ten enclosures. Subsequently Subse-quently ho received a telegram from Commander Keller of the navy, acknowledging Guatemala's right over the steamer and requesting the Minister to obtain perrulwlon from the government to return Barrtlndia to Mexico In tbe Tt.ltii. The Minister of Foielgn Relations tiositivcly declined to accede to this request. All tbe circumstances of Bar-ruuJia's Bar-ruuJia's wcll-kuowu hostility to tbe republic and bis attempted Invasion from Mexico, Mlxner says, decided his course, and he accordingly, in response to a request for written and not telegraphic orders, sent Captain Pitts a letter, advising tlio captain to submit to the arrest of his passenger. pas-senger. On the followingday Com-iuandr Com-iuandr Relter telegraphed Bar-ruudia'sdeath Bar-ruudia'sdeath while resisting arrest Under date of September 23d, In a letter to Blaine, Mizner Justifies hlscoune, and says that on the 15th he called on the minister of foreign delegations for au explanation of tho affair. In the Interview tbe minister stated with emphasis that hl-t government had given positive crder to Lake Barrundla from the .Hcarri'eo, even to tho sinking of the ship, notwithstanding it might Involve In-volve a conflict with our two war vt-ttels. This, he said, would have been tbe exercise of the undoubted light cf his own government over its own waters, In which he was confident the laws cf nations would have sustained him. Mizner says he had never heard of these orders before. He then gives the decision of Secretary Bayard in the Gomes Mexican case, in support ot his action, anu conclude-: "I confidently add that nothing will tend so much to the establishment of permanent peace in these republics as the plalu declaration that our fleet ot steamers steam-ers cannot be used in local watirs ts an asylum for revolutionists." The correspondence closis with A LETTER FUOU IlLAINE to Mizner, dated November 18th, in which he reviews the case at length and says; "The more the question Is examined In the light of important facts tardily disclosed the dceoer becomes tbe regret that you so fr exceeded ycur legitimate authority as to sign a paper which, in tbe hands of officers of Guatemala, Guate-mala, became their warrant for the capture cf Barrundla." In tbe case of Gomez, which Mirner offers as an excuse for lib conduct, Blaine falls to find any tuprort of Mlznet's actions. "lam aware," says Blaine, "that It may be said that after all you merely advl-ed tho captain of lib duty, but tho captain did not simply seek advice ad-vice lu his telegram from Cham-pciico. Cham-pciico. He says that on bis arrival at San Jos be will place himself under the orders of ihe American minister. He again telegraphed to you later from Cham-perlcothathe Cham-perlcothathe was waiting your Instructions, In-structions, and at San Jose he ex-petted ex-petted your written orders. In his last telegram toyou, dispatched Ironi San Jose on arriving at that post on tho evening of August 271b, hecate-gorlcallyiLquIreft hecate-gorlcallyiLquIreft "Shall I deliver General Barm nd la to theautboritlea here? If so, please send mo a letter with ycur signature to that effect?" There Is nut here the slightest suggestion sug-gestion that Captain Pitta proposed to act otherwise than by your order and on ycur responsibility. It was under these clrcumttances that you wrote the letter which became, in the hands of tbe Guatemalans, a pretext for tho attempted seizure of Barrundla." THE SECUETAHV, through Mizner' action, the naval force of the United States In these watt rs "thus become an acquiescent spectator to the events, although a merchant vessel of the United States was then lying under the niuzzrs of guns manned by men who, as you state, bad every reason to believe were prejared to resist an act of violence, even as Senor Angruno bis since declared to you, even of the sinking of tho ship, notwithstanding notwith-standing it might have involved a conflict with cur two war vessels then and there present "I am not dlspwed," continues Blaine, "to pay undue regard to these post facto tbflats which are now reported to the department I prefer to think that by extravagant language, uncontrolled by the actual presence of a problem which be was permitted to solve so much to his satisfaction, Senor Auguana has done injustice to his own sense of humanity. To have sunk tbe Acd-fmlco, Acd-fmlco, with her freight of innocent lives, in tbe execution of a irpLe for the accomplishment of which nothing but unlawful and invaliJ excuses nave so far been advanced, would have been an act of savsge warfare, and I am instructed by the President to say that be earnestly trusts' the time will never come when tbe courseof events in Guatemala, Guate-mala, cr the declared purpose of her rulers, will constrain tills government govern-ment to insure tbe safety of iti merchant vessels entering the waters wat-ers of Guatemala by stationing the naval vessels along the coast and opposite Ibe porta of that country." 1HJUNK CLOSES HIS LETTER as follows: "On mora than one occasion oc-casion this Government baa permitted per-mitted its legations and ships of war to offer hospitality to political refugee?. refu-gee?. This la done from. Btotlves of humanity. Its viaxa would not have been Irssptoneuneed if, In addition ad-dition to tbe human aspect of .the subject It had alwbewt confrobxl u wlth the duty of preventing the decks of Its merchant vessels from being made tho theater of illegal violence upon groundless and unlawful unlaw-ful excuses, and without even tbe pretense of legal formality. For your course therefore In Intervening to assist the authorities of Guatemala Guate-mala to accomplish their desire, tbe capture of Barrrudla, I can discover no Justification! You were promptly Informed that your act was regretted. I am now directed by the President to Inform you that It bj disavowed. The President is moreover of tbe opinion that your usefulness In Central Cen-tral America is at an end. You will therefore leave your post with all convenient dispatch, turning over your legation to Klmberly, as Charge d'Affairs eid tnferun, through whom your letter of recall will subsequently subsequent-ly be presented to tbe Guatemalan Government" |