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

Mr. Olney to Baron Fava.

Department of State,
Washington , December 2, 1895 .

No. 88.]

Excellency: I have a confidential communication, under date of October 29, from the governor of Colorado, respecting the postponement of the criminal proceedings against the Walsenburg Italian lynchers, the substance of which I shall be glad to make known to you at our next interview.

The governor expresses the strongest desire that the guilty parties may be punished and his conviction that the postponement is a necessary means to that end.

Accept, etc.,

Richard Olney.