No. 416.] [Inclosure.] Mr. Powell to Mr. St. Victor. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Port au Prince, Haiti, February 18, 1901. SIR: I have the honor to call your attention to the instructions from my Government as to right of your Government to impose higher charges on American tonnage than is imposed by your Government on French tonnage. My Government is of the opinion that Article X of the convention of 1864 between the United States and Haiti is quite independent of Article XI and creates absolute rights, which my Government can not fail to insist upon. Should, therefore, any higher charges be collected on American tonnage than that of any other country they will be reclaimed. Accept, etc., W. F. POWELL. Mr. Hay to Mr. Powell. No. 458.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 883, of the 18th ultimo, and approve your note to the Haitian foreign office in regard to the imposition of higher duties on American than on French tonnage. You will continue to press the matter. I am, etc., JOHN HAY. CITIZENSHIP OF JULIENNE GUILLOID, BORN IN HAITI OF A MULATTO, FORMER RESIDENT OF LOUISIANA. No. 860.] Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Port au Prince, Haiti, January 26, 1901. SIR: A gentleman by the name of Julienne Guilloid called and requested to be registered on the books of the legation as an American citizen. He not being able to furnish sufficient evidence that such was the case, I have refused, but stated to him that I would call the attention of the honorable Secretary of State to his request. The evidence that he produced to support his request for registration is a paper issued to his father forty-one years ago by the State of Louisiana, bearing the name of Julienne, a mulatto, and stating that "the bearer was a resident of that State. Attached thereto was the seal of the State and the signature of the governor, John Whitcliff. In addition to this another paper was produced, bearing the signature of one of the United States consular agents, calling upon this Government to give the bearer protection and the right to move from place to place in the Republic of Haiti as an American citizen. Later there appears an indorsement upon this paper of a similar character, signed by the Hon. J. W. Thompson, at the time the United States minister resident and consul-general here. I would be glad to send copies of such papers, but Mr. Guilloid refused to leave them without his father's consent. After a further investigation I find that this gentleman has no intention of returning to the United States, nor has he returned within the time he left, fortyone years ago, during the whole of which time he has been a resident of St. Mare, Haiti (I have reference to the father). The son, who is the applicant for registration, is 23 years of age, has never been to the States at any period of his life, nor was he registered on the books of the legation or the consulate at the time of his birth. As I have stated, I have refused to register him, believing that his father had lost his citizenship, and that the son had not made this request at the time he reached his majority. I do not desire to do injustice to him, and therefore request of the Department to inform me if the action taken by W. F. POWELL. me was correct. I have, etc.. Mr. Hill to Mr. Powell. No. 455.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, February 20, 1901. SIR: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 860, of the 26th ultimo, reporting that Mr. Julienne Guilloid had applied to you for registration as an American citizen. He was born in Haiti, has never been in the United States, is 23 years old, and expresses no intention of coming to this country. He claims through his father, who left the United States forty-one years ago, has never returned, and whose only evidence of American citizenship is a paper under the seal of the State of Louisiana, and signed by the governor thereof, in which he is styled a resident of the State of Louisiana. In view of the presumption that the father of the applicant has practically abandoned his United States citizenship, if he ever possessed it, and of the further fact that the applicant expresses no intention of ever coming to the United States to reside, the Department considers that your action is correct in declining to register him as a citizen of the United States. MR. SECRETARY OF STATE: Permit me to lament with you the sorrowful loss which the people of the United States have just experienced in the person of its regretted President. The cowardly attempt of which he dies the victim has, in exciting the indignation of my country, redoubled the sympathy which has been felt there for Mr. McKinley. I should be obliged to you to extend to the Government as well as to the people of the United States the sincere condolences of my Government and of the Republic of Haiti. I avail myself, etc., J. N. LÉGER. Mr. Hill to Mr. Léger. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 25, 1901. SIR: The pressure of public business attendant upon the death of President McKinley has delayed until now an acknowledgment of your note of the 15th instant conveying an expression of the sympathy of the Government and people of Haiti with the Government and people of the United States in the loss they have sustained by that sad event. I shall be obliged if you will assure your Government that their condolement is gratefully appreciated by the Government and people of the United States, who are deeply touched by the innumerable manifestations of sympathy which they have received from all parts of the world. At the same time I beg to thank you for the expression of condolence made on your own behalf. Accept, etc., DAVID J. HILL, ITALY. LIABILITY OF NATURALIZED CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER MILITARY AND EXPATRIATION LAWS OF THEIR NATIVE COUNTRY.a DEPARTMENT OF STATE, NOTICE TO CITIZENS FORMERLY SUBJECTS OF ITALY WHO CONTEMPLATE RETURNING TO THAT COUNTRY. The information given below is believed to be correct, yet it is not to be considered as official, as it relates to the laws and regulations of a foreign country. Italian subjects between the ages of 20 and 39 years are liable for the performance of military duty under Italian law, except in the case of an only son, or where two brothers are so nearly of the same age that both would be serving at the same time, in which event only one is drafted, or when there are two sons of a widow, when only one is taken. Naturalization of an Italian subject in a foreign country without consent of the Italian Government is no bar to liability to military service. A former Italian subject may visit Italy without fear of molestation when he is under the age of 20 years; but between the ages of 20 and 39 he is liable to arrest and forced military service, if he has not previously reported for such service. After the age of 39 he may be arrested and imprisoned (but will not be compelled to do military duty) unless he has been pardoned. He may petition the Italian Government for pardon, but this Department will not act as the intermediary in presenting his petition. There is no treaty between the United States and Italy defining the status of former Italian subjects who have become American citizens. The Italian law does not require the production of passports by foreign travelers, but they are frequently called upon to establish their identity, and are accordingly recommended to provide themselves with passports. They are often useful in preventing an interference with departure from Italy. They do not require to be viséed or indorsed. a See instruction to Austria-Hungary, December 10, 1900, p. 7. LYNCHING OF PERSONS OF ITALIAN ORIGIN AT ERWIN, MISS. Urgent.] Signor Carignani to Mr. Hay. [Translation.] EMBASSY OF HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ITALY, Washington, July 15, 1901. MR. SECRETARY OF STATE: As I had the honor to tell you a short time ago, two Italians were attacked on the 11th (?) instant and killed by an armed mob, while a third was wounded, under circumstances which constituted a lynching. The names of the victims were Giovanni and Vincenzo Serio, and that of the wounded man is Salvatore Liberto, all of them being natives of Cefalu, Sicily. The crime was committed at Erwin, Miss. The serious nature of this case will not escape the attention of the United States Government, and, deeply deploring what has occurred, I beg your excellency to be pleased to instruct the proper authorities to the end that an official investigation of this matter may be held at once, if possible, and that the guilty parties may be arrested and punished according to law. I have, at the same time, the honor to make a warm appeal to the good will and the sentiments of justice and humanity of the Federal Government, and I trust that efficient steps will be taken without delay in the county where the crime was committed with a view to securing to our countrymen the protection to which they are entitled by the treaties in force between Italy and the United States. Permit me to rely upon the support which you have been pleased to promise me in this unfortunate matter, and I beg you, Mr. Secretary of State, to accept the assurance of my highest consideration. CARIGNANI. No. 687.] Mr. Hay to Signor Carignani. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 15th instant reporting the lynching of two Italians named Giovanni and Vincenzo Serio, and the wounding of a third, named Salvatore Liberto, by an armed mob at Erwin, Miss. In reply I have the honor to say that the case has been at once referred to the governor of Mississippi for appropriate action. Accept, etc., JOHN HAY. Mr. Hill to Mr. Iddings. [Telegram.-Paraphrase.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, (Mr. Hill directs that the Italian minister for foreign affairs be informed that an investigation of the alleged lynch at Erwin of |
