Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Adee to Mr. Jackson.

Department of State,
Washington, August 8, 1895.

No. 378.]

Sir: I append on the overleaf copy of your telegram of the 6th instant,¹ relative to the action of the German Government in sentencing a Mr. Stern to fine and imprisonment.

In the absence of any knowledge of the facts of the case, the Department can not now instruct you touching your support of a petition for the pardon of Mr. Stern. The right of the individual to exhaust legal remedies or to petition the Sovereign is obvious, and it is not to be supposed that the intervention of the embassy could be necessary to secure his enjoyment of either resort.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.

1. See ante, p. 460.