Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States

130 Mr. Blaine to Mr. Anderson. June 6

131 Same to same..

June 7

311 Mr. Anderson to Mr. Blaine. July

313 Same to same..

315 Same to same...

Claim of Carlos Butterfield: Exchange of notifi-
cations of the convention for its settlement;
formal invitation to arbitrator, Mr. Edmund
Monson, the next step; the manner in which
the invitation should be extended; either by a
joint note or separate identic notes. Draught
of such notes inclosed.

Claim of Carlos Butterfield: Danish representa-
tive at Athens having no diplomatic character;
Mr. Anderson is authorized to sign joint note
to Mr. Edmund Monson with Danish minister
for foreign aflairs or to write a separate note
from Copenhagen; date of the receipt of notice
defined.

Claim of Carlos Butterfield: Suggestion to Dan-
ish foreign office of joint note of invitation to
Mr. Edmund Monson; Denmark's preference
for separate identic notes; correspondence on
the subject inclosed, and also Mr. Anderson's
note of invitation to the arbitrator.

July 16 Claim of Carlos Butterfield: Sir Edmund Mon-
son's reply to Mr. Anderson's invitation; copy
inclosed; discussion with Danish minister of
foreign affairs as to the value of a telegram as
a formal acceptance of the invitation from Den-
mark.
Claim of Carlos Butterfield: Mr. Anderson's note
of thanks to Sir Edmund Monson for accepting
the task of arbitrator inclosed; the same on
the part of Denmark sent to Sir Edmund.

July 18

Claim of Carlos Butterfield: Transmits his award
in the case; will send duplicate award to the
Danish Government.

FRANCE.

Arbitration: Conference of members of British
and French Parliaments, held in Paris, with
purpose of securing peace by means of tribunals
of arbitration; attitude of the United States to-
wards the movement; character of the mem-
bers of the French Chamber interested; copy
of the resolutions of the conference inclosed."
Arbitration: Resolutions of the conference at
Paris sent to the appropriate committees of
Congress.

Arbitration: Copies of circular issued by the con
ference at Paris inclosed, with request from Mr.
Passy of the French Chamber and his asso-
ciates that the circular be communicated to
those who are in favor of its object; moral sup-
port of the United States Government sought.
Hog products: Incloses copy of resolutions of the
Chicago Board of Trade relative to the prohibi-
tion by Germany and France of the importa-
tion of American hog products; earnest remon-
strance against the injustice of the prohibition;
importance of present memorial; injuriouseflect
of France's insistence upon what is regarded
as an unnecessary and unjust discrimination
against the United States; healthfulness of
American pork; magnitude of the question;
no suggestions of retaliation on our part; the
subject should be pressed upon the attention of
the French Government.
Hog products: The present not an opportune
moment for presenting the question to the
French Government; the prohibition is not per-
sisted in upon sanitary grounds; the govern
ment in favor of removing the prohibition, but
can not now. in view of existing complications,
be expected to press the matter upon the Cham-
bers; all attention engaged by the exhibition,
General Boulanger's trial, and the coming elec
tions: suggests postponement of the subject
until after the election of the new Chamber in
the autumn.

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Mr. Reid to Mr. Blaine..... Oct. 19

Nov. 15

Hog products: The French Government invited
to inspect meats of that class in the Universal
Exhibition; call of Mr. Reid and General
Franklin upon Mr. Spuller; note verbale in-
closed; Mr. Spuller favorably inclined, but
there were difficulties in the way; the idea of
protection to French producers; Mr. Spuller
himself a free-trader, but the tendency of the
new Chamber he thought was in the opposite
direction; he will probably favor the free ad-
mission of American pork products.
Passports: Application for a passport by Mr.
Frank R. Blackinton, a resident of Paris since
1871, but who claims legal residence at North
Adams, Mass.; during his residence abroad he
has frequently returned to the United States,
but does not know when he will return there
to live; at present he has no intention nor
desire to do so; passport refused; many Amer
icans in Europe in Mr. Blackinton's position;
result of refusing them passports; instructions
requested.

2 Passports: Application by Mr. Frank R. Black-
inton; his birth; departure from the United
States; residence abroad; visits to the United
States: payment of taxes at North Adams; his
domicile; his intentions; passports only for cit
izens of the United States; who are citizens;
Mr. Blackinton's status; favorable action on
Mr. Blackinton's application can not be directed.

GERMANY.

Mr. Coleman to Mr. Blaine.. Sept. 16

Mr. Phelps to Mr. Blaine.... Oct. 10

Military service cases: Report on those arising
between October 11, 1888, and September 16,
1889; inclo-ed favorable decisions of all but
three; the exceptions; inherent rights of a
State to expel foreigners when self-interest and
public welfare dictate such a course; cause of
the imposition of military fines.

Claim of Albert Bernhard: A paper found in the
archives of the legation at Paris, showing
Bernhard to have joined the "Ligue des Pa-
triotes, sent by Mr. Reid to Mr. Phelps;
copy inclosed.
Samoan Affairs: The German minister's assur-
ance that his Government desires to act in a
spirit of friendliness and comity towards the
United States in relation to Samoan affairs;
German fleet ordered to return to Samoan
waters; allegation of interference in affairs at
Apia by United States vice-consul; the Depart-
ment uninformed as to instructions of the Ger-
man fleet; its confidence in the disposition of
the treaty powers to respect the choice of a
king by the Samoan people; an alleged news-
paper interview in the United States with the
United States consul-general at Apia referred
to and that officer's disavowal of the senti-
ments there ascribed to him; departs confi-
dence in his good will toward his colleagues
and towards a settlement of the difficulties in
Samoa; indifference of this Government as to
what chief may be at the head of affairs;
causes of complaint arising among consular
officers at Apia to be taken up by their respect-
ive Governments on occasion.
Samoan affairs: Purport of conversation between
Mr. Bayard and Count Von Arco-Valley com-
municated to United States minister at Berlin,
and to be communicated to United States con-
sul at Apia, with instructions to avert friction
between the citizens of the two Governments;
in case questions arise they are to be referred
to respective Governments for decision; sim-
ilar reports from Samoa received at Berlin and
Washington; indifference of both Governments

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as to who shall be elected king; the hope expressed that Count Arco will recommend to his Government that its officials in Samoa be instructed to co-operate with those of the United States for the peaceable conduct of af fairs, and the reference to the home Government of any cause of difference arising there, not possible of arrangement there. Samoan affairs: United States consul general at Apia expected to leave San Francisco for his post about 15th of December, probably reaching Apia about the 1st of January; has Gorman consular representative at Apia been instructed in accordance with the line of Mr. Bayard's note to Count Arco, of November 21st instant?

Saman affairs: Transmits narrative of events in Samoa by a German long resident there; value of the paper. Samoan affairs: Response of Sir J. Ferguson, British under secretary of state for foreign affairs, to a question in Parliament by Mr. McArthur as to good faith of the British Government in relation to Samoan affairs; extract from the Voss'sche Zeitung, quoted; extract from the London Times on the subject inclosed; con. clusion therefiom.

Samoan affairs: Repeats substance of a telegram from the first lieutenant of the United States ship Nipsic of the landing of an armed force from German vessels and an engagement with Mataafa's forces; result, Germans shelling native villages: instructs the minister to represent this to German minister for foreign affairs and report.

Samoan affairs: Communicates the substance of the telegram from the first lieutenant of the Nipste and recites its communication to the United States minister at Berlin and the instruction thereupon, in relation to the engage. ment between the German armed force and Mataafa's party, and the shelling of the native villages.

Samoan affairs: Mr. Pendleton has been shown telegram from the German foreign office of January 7 to German minister at Washington for submission to Mr. Bayard; telegram states that representations of the United States would not be answered in detail until full report from Samoa is received at Berlin; and that the men landed from one German ship only had been engaged in the fight.

Samoan affairs: The German minister's commumication of his Government's statement of the engagement between German forces and Mataafa's party; cause of the landing of the German forces: attacked by Samoans under the leadership of Klein, an American citizen; complication arising therefrom; treaty rights to be respected; Germany asks the United States to join in restoring quiet; reference to former correspondence and conversation; the citizen. ship of Klein, who had no official relation to the United States Government nor authority from it; character of the instructions given Ünited States officials in Samoa; relief from danger of American citizens there by the President's order; effects of the conference at Washington on Samoan affairs, held in the summer of 1887; free election of their King by the Samoans agreed to by all three Governments; desire that such an election now be held; rearAdmiral Kimberly instructed to go to Apia with his flag-ship, the Trenton; confidence in him and in commanders of the other national vessels there, and that German officers will be instructed to assist in framing a plan of settle. ment of difficulties; clearness of the treaties on the subject; the views of this Government unchanged since January, 1888, and those of the German Government understood to be unaltered.

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Prince Bismarck to Count von Arco Valley.

1889. Jan. 13

Count von Arco Valley to
Mr. Bayard.

Jan. 15

Mr. Bayard to Count von
Arco Valley.

Jan. 18

Mr. Bayard to Mr. Pendle- Jan. 31 ton. (Telegram.)

Mr. Bayard to Count von
Arco Valley.

Jan. 31

Mr. Pendleton to Mr. Bay- Feb. ard. (Telegram.)

Count von Arco Valley to Feb.
Mr. Bayard.

Samoan affairs: Landing of German naval forces;
engagement with the natives, under the leader-
ship of Klein, said to be an American; conse-
quence of the conflict; contest to be continued
with consideration for English and American
interests; assistance of the United States re-
quested; Germany will abide by agreements
with the United States and Great Britain; com-
munication to be read to Mr. Bayard and a copy
left with him.

Samoan affairs: Duty of the German consul at
Apia of settling questions regarding the inter-
ests of foreigners in Samoa rendered difficult by
the attitude of the officer in charge of American
consulate and the commander of the American
war vessel, who take part of Mataafa against
Tamasese, who is recognized by Germany; evils
of Mataafa's rule suggested; his inability to
bring guilty parties to justice.
Samoan affairs: Neutrality of both the consular
and commanding naval officer of the United
States at Apia as to native chiefs; enjoined by
their Government to abstain from all recognitory
action in relation to the de jure powers claimed
by either chief; this Government regrets the
conflict and its results, but must continue to
maintain an attitude of neutrality in the belief
that the best interests of all concerned would
be served by permitting and assisting the na-
tives to choose freely their own king; the ob-
jection to Tamasese comes from the majority of
his own countrymen, who claim that he was
never legally chosen king; his rule should not,
therefore, be insisted upon.

Samoan affairs: Mr. Pendleton instructed to in-
form German Government that advices from
Apia state that German consul had declared
Germany to be at war with Mataafa and Samoa
to be under martial law; substance of Prince
Bismarck's declaration on the subject recited;
Germany must instruct German officials in
Samoa not to interfere with American citizens
there; Germany's declaration of martial law
not recognized by the United States.
Samoan affairs: Declaration of war and martial
law by Germany in Samoa; Mr. Pendleton
communicated with on the subject, and in-
structed to advise the German Government
that the United States expects German officials
in Samoa to abstain from all interference with
American citizens and their property, and that
Germany's declaration of martial law can not
be recognized by the United States.
Samoan affairs: Declaration of martial law by the
German consul at Apia contrary to his instruc-
tions: his action regretted and the consul re-
buked; the German Government will adhere
strictly to treaty status; this statement an-
ticipates the representations Mr. Pendleton
was instructed to make, and he accordingly
withholds them.

Samoan affairs: Proclamation by commander of
German squadron at Apia of martial law per-
missible nuder rules of international law; but
Prince Bismarck, thinking that German mili-
tary authority had gone too far, telegraphed to
commander to withdraw that part of the order
relating to foreigners; German consul at Apia,
who had asked of Mataafa that the administra
tion of the islands of Samoa be handed over to
him, instructed to withdraw his demand imme-
diately.

Mr. Bayard to Count von Feb. 1 Samoan affairs: Anticipation by the German
Arco Valley.

foreign office of Mr. Pendleton's instructions
in relation to proclamation of martial law by the
German consul at Apia.

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Samoan affairs: Necessities of the present situation in Samoa; duties of the three treaty powers to put an end to contention and bloodshed in the islands; resumption of consultation of 1887, of representatives of Germany, England, and the United States; proposition for such a consultation at Berlin; Germany's neutrality in the islands and desire for permanent safety of commercial interests. Samoan affairs: Desire of the President to restore peace and order to the people of Samoa; acceptance of Germany's proposal for a conference at Berlin by the three powers, based upon protocols of conference of 1887 and regarded as a resumption of that conference; its resumption should be expedited; a truce should be proclaimed in Samoa and further armed action prevented; there is no equality in a struggle between a scanty band of Samoans and the forces at Germany's command; instructions to suspend belligerent action suggested; it is hoped they will not be delayed; the announce. ment of the conference will doubtless cause a cessation of hostilities; except as the conditions may be changed in Samoa by the free election of a king, affairs there should remain in statu quo pending the conference; with the hope that these suggestions will be fruitful, the Government of the United States will take steps at once to be properly represented at the conference; statements of the German consul in Samoa finding fault with Captain Leary, of the Nipsic, and Mr. Blacklock, United States consul there, must be classed as mere hearsay evidence; the statements of the German consul will be brought to the attention of Captain Leary and Mr. Blacklock and their reply communicated; allowance should be made for excitement prevailing in Samoa.

Samoan affairs: Instructions as commissioners to the conference at Berlin; the general princi ples which will govern the opinions and control the decisions of the United States Governments; fuller instructions will be sent from time to time; character of the substance of the protocols of the first conference; the United States Government desires a speedy and amicable solution of all problems involved; it will maintain its equality of right in disposing of all questions and protect its own citizens wherever their lawful enterprise may carry them; the President hopes for a frank and friendly conference with satisfactory results to the powers and justice to the Samoan people; his confidence in the motives and purposes of the German Government; the present conference regarded as an adjourned meeting of the conference of 1887, and not as a new one; and the influential conditions then existing regarded as unchanged; Mr. Bayard's note to Count Arco of February 5, 1889, referred to on this point; the scope and purpose of the present conference; effect in Samoa of the municipality convention of 1879, and the treaty of peace of July, 1881; the transactions of 1885 not now to be considered in detail; disavowal of irregular action of German and United States cousuls of both Governments recited; quotations from former correspondence on the subject; agreement of the three treaty powers to send commis-ioners to Samoa to report upon the actual condition of affairs there, and their report referred to; these matters were fully discussed by the first session of the conference; events since the adjournment of the conference in July, 1887 declaration of war " by Germany against "Malietoa, personally;" his deportation; these acts regar led as an abrupt breach of the joint relations of the treaty powers unreconcilable with the friendly language of Germany

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