No. 10.
Mr. Taft to
Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Vienna , August 12, 1884. (Received August 25.)
Sir: I have received your dispatch numbered 89 and dated July 28 last, and have to day called upon his excellency Count Kalnoky, the secretary of foreign affairs, from whom I learn that the laws of the Empire prohibit the going round of agents for the purpose of proselyting to Mormonism and leading people away under that pretext, and that the Government enforces the law whenever it finds that it has been or is likely to be violated.
This Government sympathizes with that of the United States in its efforts to put a stop to the bigamous practices of the Mormons in the United States.
I have, therefore, as instructed by your dispatch, communicated to the Government of this Empire, through Count Kalnoky, your appreciation of these measures taken by this Government, by a letter of this date, inclosing a copy of yours, to which this is an answer.
Count Kalnoky remarked, in the course of the interview, that he did not think that there were many persons in this Empire who were led away by the Mormon superstition.
I am, &c.,