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[Inclosure 1.]

Mr. Beaupre to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.]

GUATEMALA, March 16, 1899. Honduras envoy here to settle by arbitration question with British Government. Representatives offer me post of sole arbitrator to retain functions when I cease to be chargé d'affaires. Will accept with the full permission of the Department of State. BEAUPRE.

[Inclosure 2.]

Mr. Hay to Mr. Beaupre.
[Telegram.]

WASHINGTON, March 18, 1899.

Invitation as arbitrator of question between Honduras and Great Britain appears to be to you personally, and not as United States chargé d'affaires. In that understanding you are permitted to accept, being careful to completely dissociate your judicial function from your representative status.

Mr. Hay to Mr. Beaupre.

HAY.

No. 141.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, April 11, 1899.

SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, No. 159, of the 22d ultimo, explaining the case between Honduras and Great Britain which you have been requested to arbitrate.

The Department approves the conditions, as stated in the dispatch, under which the submission is made.

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SIR: I have the honor to inform you that on the morning of the 16th instant the United States cruiser Newark, Capt. C. F. Goodrich commanding, reached San José, Guatemala.

The captain at once reported to me that fact by wire, and of his purpose to visit the capital to pay his respects to the President and to the American minister.

He arrived here at 4 in the afternoon, with eight of his officers and men, and was received at the depot by a representative of the Government and by the secretary of this legation.

At 5 he visited this legation and by appointment I accompanied him to the palace, where at 11 o'clock next morning he was cordially

received by the President, who expressed regret that the early departure of the Newark would deprive him of the pleasure of entertaining the captain and his officers.

At 8.30 on the morning of the 18th Captain Goodrich and his party left San José on a special train provided by Col. D. B. Hodgsdon, general manager of the Guatemala Central Railroad, and sailed in the evening for San Francisco.

While here invitations were extended and accepted by the officers to a ball at the Guatemala Club, a banquet at the American Club, a dinner at the palatial residence of Col. D. B. Hodgsdon, and a breakfast by the American minister.

It affords me great pleasure to state that the entire party produced a most favorable impression by their commendable deportment during their brief stay in this city.

I have, etc.,

W. GODFREY HUNTER.

Mr. Adee to Mr. Hunter.

No. 191.]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 13, 1899.

SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, No. 245, of the 21st ultimo, reporting the arrival of the United States cruiser Newark at San José, Guatemala, and the courtesies shown to Capt. C. F. Goodrich and his officers on their visit to Guatemala City.

At the instance of the Acting Secretary of the Navy, to whom Captain Goodrich has reported the matter, you will express to President Cabrera the thanks of the Navy Department for the generous hospitality extended to Captain Goodrich and his officers.

I am, etc.,

ALVEY A. ADEE,
Acting Secretary.

CONSULAR IMMUNITIES.

HAITI.

ARREST BY HAITIAN

AUTHORITIES

OF AN EMPLOYEE OF THE UNITED STATES VICE-CONSULGENERAL.

No. 545.]

Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay.

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Port au Prince, Haiti, April 5, 1899. SIR: I transmit to the Department under this inclosure the correspondence that has lately passed between the foreign office of the Haitian Government and the legation upon an attempt on the part of the Haitian authorities to arrest one of the employees of Dr. J. B. Terres, the vice-consul-general.

The correspondence will give the history of the case and my action in the matter. I have since had an interview with the secretary of foreign affairs ad interim, Hon. Stephan Lafontant, and believe the incident to be happily closed without friction, the Haitian secretary of foreign affairs stating the unpleasant incident arose from a misinterpretation of orders on the part of subordinate officials; that they were not authorized to make such arrest or to invade the domicile of our vice-consul-general.

The Department will favor me to pass upon my action.
I have, etc.,

[Inclosure 1.]

Mr. Terres to Mr. Powell.

W. F. POWELL.

No. 309.,

CONSULATE-GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES,
Port au Prince, Haiti, March 30, 1899.

MY DEAR MINISTER: On the afternoon of the 29th, when I arrived at my residence, I found at the entrance and also on the premises some fifteen or twenty Haitian soldiers, who, however, withdrew before I had time to reach the gate. I inquired of one of my domestics what was their mission. He replied that they had come with an order to arrest two men I had employed on the premises.

The following morning, in coming from my bath, I found two Haitian generals stationed on the gallery of my house. I asked them what was their mission. They informed me that they had an order to arrest two Spaniards that I had in my employment. I demanded who had given them such orders. They replied that it was an order from the minister of the interior. I told them that I did not, admit of any right on his part to invade my premises with an armed force under any pretext whatever, and that if he desired any information from me on any matter, to write to me officially and I would answer him.

Mr. Minister, I most solemnly protest against any such action on the part of the Haitian Government, and I lay these facts before you hoping that you will take such steps as you may deem necessary to prevent a like occurrence.

I am, etc.,

JOHN B. TERRES.

[Inclosure 2.]

Mr. Terres to Mr. Powell.

CONSULATE-GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, Port au Prince, Haiti, April 1, 1899. SIR: On the afternoon of the 30th ultimo I received from the minister of the interior the inclosed communication, which I transmit to you with my reply to same. Respectfully, etc.,

JOHN B. TERRES.

[Subinclosure.-Translation.]

Mr. Auguste to Mr. Terres.

PRIVATE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE INTERIOR,
Port au Prince, March 30, 1899.

MR. THE VICE-CONSUL: On the request of the chargé d'affaires of the Dominican Republic addressed to me, I would be greatly pleased if you would have delivered Mr. Marcon Aroche (Alvarez) to the chief of the post of Carrefour. Mr. Marcon Aroche, alias Alvarez, works at present in the tobacco plantation that belongs to you and which you have established in that quarter.

Please accept, etc.,

T. AUGUSTE.

[Subinclosure.]

Mr. Terres to Mr. Auguste.

CONSULATE-GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES,
Port au Prince, Haiti, March 31, 1899.

SIR: I have your favor of March 30. I have carefully noted the statement you have made therein. In reply to your communication I beg to inform you that I have brought this matter to the attention of our minister, who will take such steps as he may deem necessary to prevent our homes being invaded in future.

I am, etc.,

[Inclosure 3.]

Mr. Powell to Mr. Lafontant.

JOHN B. TERRES.

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,

Port au Prince, Haiti, March 30, 1899.

SIR: Dr. J. B. Terres, the United States vice-consul-general, informs me this morning that his premises were entered yesterday upon an order from your honorable colleague, the Hon. T. Auguste, secretary of interior, for the purpose of arresting some of his employees, who were Cubans.

I desire to call your immediate attention to this matter, that in entering upon the premises of accredited officers of the United States, located in this Republic, is a grave infraction of international law, a recurrence of which will be very apt to lead to serious complications. I also desire to inform you that all Cubans resident in this Republic are under the protection of the United States while in the peaceful performance of their work, and are not to be molested.

You will greatly favor me by calling the attention of your honorable colleague, the Hon. Tancrede Auguste, to this matter, that your Government has no right to enter upon the premises of United States consular officers with either its military or its constabulary force.

Accept, etc.,

W. F. POWELL.

[Inclosure 4.--Translation.]

Mr. Lafontant to Mr. Powell.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS,
Port au Prince, Haiti, March 31, 1899.

MR. MINISTER: I hasten to acknowledge reception of your important communication of yesterday's date, which I immediately transmitted to the department of interior to obtain the necessary information.

However, and before even those informations, I can give you the assurance that it can never have entered in the intention of my colleague, Mr. the Secretary of State of the Interior, to give orders that may be of the nature to bring a violation of international laws and the violation of the dwelling of an accredited agent of the United States.

If a like circumstance has been able to take place, I remain convinced that it can only have been in consequence of badly interpreted instructions.

I take note that the Cubans residing in the Republic are under the protection of the Government of the United States of America, and I beg you to accept, Mr. Minister, the renewed assurance of my high consideration, etc.,

N. S. LAFONTANT.

Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay.

No. 547.]

LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Port au Prince, Haiti, April 10, 1899. SIR: I transmit under this cover copies of the correspondence that has passed between the foreign office and the legation concerning the complaint made by Dr. J. B. Terres of an attempt to arrest one of his employees. This correspondence may be considered as a continuance of dispatch No. 545, April 6.

The inclosed correspondence having been received since the above dispatch was sent, this completes the history of the case, which has been settled without any unpleasant feeling being left.

I have, etc.,

[Inclosure 1.-Translation.]

W. F. POWELL.

Mr. Lafontant to Mr. Powell.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS,
Port au Prince, April 8, 1899.

Mr. MINISTER: Confirming to you the declarations that I have had the honor to make to you at our late interview, I am pleased to give you the assurance that in ordering, on the request of Mr. the chargé d'affaires of the Dominican Republic, the arrestation to be expelled of a Dominican who is in the service of Dr. Terres, vice-consul-general of the United States of America, my colleague of the department of the interior had in no wise the intention to violate the dwelling of an accredited agent of the United States, nor to commit any infraction of the international laws.

The order, moreover, not having any sequence, and the agent of the authority hav ing stopped in view of the protestation of Dr. Terres.

You will kindly remember that in my dispatch of the 31st March, in reply to the one in which you made known to me the incident of which you thought to have a cause of complaint, I gave you the same assurances.

I have not failed to remark to you how much it would have been painful for the Government, that you could believe for a single instant that a minister of the Republic could have given an order of a nature to disturb the good relations that unite the two republics and to which my Government attaches such price.

Please accept, etc.,

N. S. LAFONTANT.

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