I have yet to flndin therecords of this Department the faintest trace of any ins tructlon to that end or the slightest warrant for the assumption by any diplo.aatie or .onsularrepregentative of authority so to act. Now. then. the point of difference as shown by M1r. Blaine between the two cases is that in the one case the American minister refused the demand of the foreign Government to order the surrender of the political refugee and left the captain of the vessel free to take his own course. In the other case. the American minister intervened by active cooperation with the Guatemalan authorities to compel the unwilling captain of the American ship to deliver up the refugee. And yet the gentleman from California [Ir. M KENNA] can see no difference between the conduct of the American minister in the Gomez case and the conduct of the American minister in the Barrundia case.