Baron Fava to Mr. Blaine.
Washington June 16, 1890. (Received June 17.)
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of the letter of the 17th instant, by which Your Excellency has had the kindness to make known to me the response of the governor of New York in the matter of the commission rogatory relative to the procedure instituted in the Kingdom against the two subjects of the King, Villella and Bevivino.
In view of the great importance which the Government of the King attaches to the prompt settlement of this affair, I can not but regret the delay interposed by the governor of New York in the response which Your Excellency has kindly communicated to me with a promptness for which I hasten to thank you, at the same time expressing the hope that the governor of Pennsylvania will, in his turn, make known without delay the decision at which he has arrived with regard to the execution of the commission rogatory in the latter State.
[Page 559]Agreeably to the advice in the letter of Your Excellency, I have to-day brought the affair before the royal consulate-general at New York, instructing it to initiate promptly the necessary procedure before the competent judicial authority, with a view to obtaining, with the least possible delay, the execution of the commission rogatory referred to.
Be pleased to accept, etc.,