Mr. Blaine to Baron Fava.
Washington, D. C., March 21, 1891.
My Dear Baron Fava: Several days since I asked of your secretary, the Marquis Imperiali, to furnish to this Government the names? circumstances, and conditions of the three Italian subjects who, according to the Italian consul, were murdered in New Orleans. That information has not yet reached us from your legation. The Marquis Rudini is surely not so far misled as to suppose that the men massacred in New Orleans were all or mainly Italian subjects. Still less do I suppose that the Marquis Rudini considers that the Italians who have assumed American citizenship are in any way under the protection of the Italian Government.
The principal duty at present relates to the three alleged Italian subjects, and this Government desires to have, respecting them, the information I have already asked of your legation.
Your obedient servant,