and bearing as respects our Government and citizens would go far to secure from the Senate of the United States that favorable reconsideration of the proposed convention between the two countries which is absolutely essential if the present wishes of the Turkish Government are to be gratified. It is desired that you shall temperately, but earnestly and clearly, make these views known in the proper quarter, in the hope that upon the assembling of the Senate in December next the matter may be laid before that.body, in conformity with the President's constitutional prerogative to consult the coordinate treaty-making power upon occasion, with favorabie considerations tending to bring about a prompt and satisfactory conclusion. I am, etc., RICHARD OLNEY. No. 1017.] IRADÉ REGARDING ARMENIAN EMIGRATION. Mr. Terrell to Mr. Olney. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Constantinople, October 10, 1896. (Received Oct. 22.) SIR: I have the honor to append on the overleaf for your information the copy of an Imperial iradé which prohibits from hereafter residing in Turkey any Armenian who has emigrated in the last twenty years. Two months only are allowed to those Armenian subjects who are temporarily absent to return. Those who return with foreign passports will not be recognized as foreign subjects and will not be permitted to remain. Those who desire to leave must bind themselves with a responsible surety that they will not return. The requirement of security is likely to interpose a new difficulty in getting the wives of our naturalized Armenians away, even if consent to leave is given, for their poverty-stricken friends can not furnish the security. A. W. TERRELL. 1 have, etc., [Inclosure 1017.-From Levant Herald, October 9, 1896.] Imperial Iradé. THE EMIGRATION OF ARMENIANS. The following official communication appeared this morning in all the Turkish papers published in the capital: In consequence of recent events in Constantinople, certain members of the Armenian community, fathers of families or bachelors, artisans, merchants, or others, continue to emigrate. Then individuals of no certain occupation find their way somehow into the various vilayets of the Empire. Now, the Armenian agitators attribute this emigration to an alleged want of confidence and nonexisting security in the capital. They invent and publish in this connection all sorts of lies and incorrect statements. Since the foundation of the Ottoman Empire, need it be said, the Imperial Government has never ceased pursuing a just line of conduct, the object being to safeguard the lives, property, and honor of its loyal subjects. The Imperial Government is in a position, under the protecting scepter of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, to prevent all cause of anxiety or fear, which might induce further emigration. Thus, all who desire to leave the country must sign a document and also have a solvable guaranty, confirmed by the patriarchate, that they will not return to Turkey. This declaration must be accompanied by the likeness of the emigrant, and it will only be after fulfilling such formalities that emigration will be authorized. The passports delivered to these emigrants will state that such persons will not be allowed to set foot again on Ottoman territory. The explanation in question, as well as a declaration that the emigrants have lost Ottoman nationality, will be duly inscribed in the registers of the commission ad hoc, in the archives of the competent department, as well as at the chancellery of the Armenian patriarchate. A delay of a month and a half, and in cases of plausible hindrance, two months' delay, commencing from to-day, will be granted to those who have gone abroad without authorization from the Imperial Government, to return to their homes. In the event of their design to stay where they are, they must make a declaration to this effect in the Turkish embassies or legations abroad. Emigrants of this category will, nevertheless, lose their nationality as Ottoman subjects, unless they return to Turkey within the above-named period. Ottoman Armenian subjects who have emigrated under false names and yet by diverse means have returned to Turkey with foreign passports will not be recog nized as foreign subjects, nor will they be allowed to live in any part of the Empire. Armenians who have emigrated during the past twenty years, and especially members of the committee of agitators, will not benefit from the present arrangement. Consequently they will not be permitted to return here. Every agitator who returns to Turkey will be arrested and brought before the ordinary tribunals. As regards Armenians of foreign nationality, who in great numbers are among the agitators as organizers of disturbance, the Government and the police find it difficult to distinguish between the one and the other. In consequence such foreign Armenians will not be allowed to assume Ottoman nationality, in accordance with the law which authorizes the admission of other foreigners to become Ottoman subjects. These regulations, decided upon at a council of ministers, have been sanctioned by Imperial iradé. INDEX. A. Address of the minister of the Greater Republic of Central America on present- between Argentine Republic and Chile for the settlement of their bound- between Chile and France for the settlement of French claims growing out between China and Japan providing for Japanese settlements at open ports between the United States and Mexico for the reciprocal right to pursue 438 293-298 747 Aliens and naturalization, Hawaiian law concerning, text of. 387 Alsace-Lorraine : applicability of the Bancroft treaties to, discussed.. 186-192 persons born in, and naturalized in the United States held by Germany to 187 Alsop & Co. (See Claim.) American Methodist Mission. (See Claims.) American Baptist Missionary Union. (See Claims.) American Southern Presbyterian Mission, indemnity paid to, for destruction Antilottery law applicable to newspapers containing drawings of government 115-117 Arbitration: adjustment of disputes between the United States and Great Britain by. of boundary controversy between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.... 100–102, 371–374 100 of boundary controversy between Great Britain and Venezuela; conclusion 240-255 of British claims growing out of civil war in Chile, results of the 35-41 of the claim of Julio R. Santos against Ecuador. 103-110 award of arbitrator... 109 Argentine Republic: of disputes between the United States and Great Britain; text of treaty boundary controversy with Chile, agreement for the settlement of... Armenian agitators, request of Turkey for the expulsion of, from the United Armenian emigration from Turkey, iradé concerning.. 238 32-34 1 925-929 937 Page Armenian families of naturalized citizens of the United States permitted to 924 Arrest of citizens of the United States: at Aleppo, Turkey, charged with sedition; released and expelled from 914-925 in the South African Republic charged with treason; sentenced to pay- 562-581 in Cuba, and demands for their trial by civil courts in accordance with 631-670 case of Anton Yablkowski, released Theodore L. Vives list of, with cause of arrest, charges, places of confinement, and stating in Russia for becoming citizens of the United States without permission case of John Ginzberg; sentenced to deprivation of civil rights and case of Henry Topor Arrest of American sealers for illegal sealing in Russian waters.. 652,749 661, 749 661, 749 747 509 523 507 495-507 Arrest of Jesus Garcia, a Mexican citizen, by a United States deputy sheriff 488 Assessment on property of citizens of the United States by insurgents in Cuba. 695 United States legations have no right to protect political refugees by har- 381 United States ministers responsible only for part of premises actually 110-114 Atkins, E., & Co., destruction of property of, in Cuba... 676 Austria-Hungary: citizenship status of Emanuel, Samuel B., and Ephraim Kohn, foreign- Award of arbitrator of the claim of Julio R. Santos against Ecuador, text of. Bering Sea, protection of the fur seals in. (See Seals.) composition of.. convention for the establishment of. treaty of commerce with Chile, text of. treaty of peace and amity with Chile, text of Bolton, August, arrest of, in Cuba... Boundary: between Alaska and British Canadian territories, proposals for a conven- 32-34 controversy between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, treaty providing for the 100-102 controversy between Great Britain and Venezuela. 240-255 heads of proposed treaty between Venezuela and Great Britain for set- 254 treaty for settlement of, signed.. 254 of Siam, agreement between France and Great Britain with reference to, 139 Brand, Gerhard. (See Military service.) Brandt, Konrad H. (See Military service.) C. Calvar, George. (See Arrest of citizens of the United States in Cuba.) Canada, maritime charges, reciprocity in, with the United States.. report of Dr. W. H. Wray on the sanitary condition of.... restrictions on, in British ports.... 19-26 163-185 165 173 23 317-363 British act requiring slaughter of, at port of entry, not discriminatory 363 Cattle, French, prohibition of the importation of, into the United States.. 136-138 arrest of, in Cuba. 749 expropriation of the property of, in Cuba, for military use. 671 749 Cespedes, Oscar. (See Arrest of citizens of the United States in Cuba.) arbitration of British claims against, growing out of civil war, results of 35-41 boundary controversy with Argentine Republic, agreement for the settle- 32-34 French claims against, growing out of civil war, settlement of.. 42 43-45 military service in, children born in Chile of American parents and residing agreement with Japan providing for establishment of Japanese settle- 98 |