Mr. Blaine to Mr. Grant .

No. 59.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, No. 67, of the 11th of March last, in which you inclose a translation of a note of Baron Pasetti, of the 5th of the same month, in relation to the expulsion of Mr. Hugo Klamer and to the naturalization treaty between the United States of America and Austria-Hungary.

The case of Mr. Klamer is passed by in Baron Pasetti’s note with little or no discussion of its circumstances, and most of his observations are devoted to general questions affecting the right of expulsion. It is regretted that his reply should have been given this direction. It is undoubtedly desirable to prevent the commission of frauds under color of the treaty, and the Department is quite of opinion that an attempt to make use of the treaty merely for the purpose of escaping the burdens which may be involved in bearing allegiance to either of the contracting parties should be discontinued. This, however, was not, in the opinion of the Department, the case with Mr. Klamer; and the note of Baron Pasetti affords no reason to change that conclusion.

I am, etc.,

James G. Blaine.