Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1894, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 3, 1894

Mr. Uhl to Mr. White.

Department of State,
Washington , June 18, 1894 .

No. 208.]

Sir: I inclose copies of two letters¹ received from Mr. W. W. Saperston and Mr. B. B. Bloch, reporting the case of Stanislaus O. Krzeminski, a native of Russian-Poland, and alleged to be a naturalized American citizen, who, on returning to Russia during the spring of this year, is said to have been arrested and, without trial, exiled to the salt mines in Siberia.

I also inclose copy¹ of Department’s reply to Mr. Saperston.

You are instructed to investigate the case, and if Mr. Krzeminski’s American citizenship be established and the facts warrant it, you will do everything in your power to save this unfortunate man from the severe (and in the case of a naturalized American citizen, extraordinary) penalty of exile to the Siberian mines.

I am, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary.

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