Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1890

Mr. Blaine to Mr. Hirsch.

Department of State,
Washington, November 17, 1890.

No. 132.]

Sir: The Department was glad to be informed by your No. 171 of the 22d ultimo that the Government of Turkey had finally taken action in the case of the alleged criminal Moussa Bey, which will probably preclude further complaint of the American missionaries in the quarter where he lived. Notwithstanding his technical acquittal on more than one occasion, this Government entertained no reasonable doubt that the charges brought by the missionaries were well founded and justified the sentence of banishment to Arabia, which has been carried into effect.

I am, etc.,

James G. Blaine.