Show A DIPLOMAT TALKS may get his passports insulted assistant secretary day while casually discussing the maine disaster he Is salu to have made an humble apology new york march 17 A dispatch to the world from washington says the story is circulated here atit lad islaias Hengel muller von a the minister of aneiro in more imminent danger of being cibeu his passports than was senor de lome in the most critical period of his recent diplomatic trouble the austrian minister has recently bad several conferences with assistant secretary day in regard to the payment of indemnity for the Hung ariana killed by sheriff martin in the labor disturbances at Lattia during the last cf these conferences it is eaid the caban question came up casually and the minister took occasion to remark that he supposed after tha i american and spanish boards of inquiry bad submitted reports the whole matter would be submitted to an international board of inquiry judge day is represented as diviny a negative reply to this the minister is eaid to have excitedly replied that such was the usual method of procedure and that abo nations of europe would expect their sister power woold be accorded that courtesy judge day is asserted to have responded that the united states would determine question of spanish responsibility for the loss of the maine in her own way and without reference to what the nations of europe might expect to consider proper this is said to have EO angered the austrian minister that he forgot hia diplomatic training and violent language to judge day if the scene took place as is said no ether course would be open toi the president than to give the austrian minister bis paes porto it ie inferred by those who are cespon sable for tho story that the matter wae subsequently adjusted by the minister which induced jandke day to retrain irom proceeding to an extremity tre mity this impression has been created by the fact that inquiries at the executive mansion resulted in the statement that the president knows nothing of the incident baron Hengeli was absent from bis residence when called upon by a correspondent and judge day declined to discuss the matter |