Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 9, 1891

Mr. Porter to Mr. Blaine.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Rome, April 1, 1891.

Mr. Porter informed Mr. Blaine, in reply to the latter’s telegram of March 29, that the Italian Government understood the relations of the Federal and State Governments, but was not satisfied that the Federal Government was employing every effort to secure prompt action by the governor of Louisiana. Mr. Porter stated that a positive assurance on this point would be beneficial, as there was an impression that the Government of the United States desired to temporize; that the Italian Parliament would reassemble on the 14th, and the minister of foreign affairs urged that he must be able positively to affirm that the Federal Government had given an assurance that every effort to bring the offenders to justice would be made.