The gentleman from California. in quoting the Gomez cae. claim.(I that it is on all fours with the Barrundia case. and yet it is to be picsumed that he has seen the admirable letter of the Secretary -ofStat.. addressed to Minister Mizner. in which he discusses the Gomez c t) with reference to the Barrundia case. and lays down the propoiitica broadly that between the two is an impassable s pace. Mr. Chairman. in the Gomez case. when the Nicarguan Governmiet demanded of the American consul his intervention to secure the ci.sent of the captain of the Pacific Mail steamship Honduras for the srrender of the refugee. Mr. Hall. our minister to Guatemala at thit time. instructed the consul who was stationed at an Juan del Sur. to say that the policy of the Government of the United States was ag\.asuch a proceeding.