I then insist that an officer of the Navy who recognizes in a South American port rules of international law of universal application can be guilty of no breach of duty for not having violated them unless he has had instructions from his superior officer to violate them. and Commander Reiter had no such instructions. But it has been argued that Barrundia was a political relugee and therefore entitled to the right of asylum. To this I answer that he was not a mere political refugee. He stood charged. as I have already saida matter so notorious that gentlemen might have learned it from the New York Tribune of the day after that on which he waskilledwith the crimes of murder and embezzlement of public funds. But FEBlUTArIY 10. even if he had been a political refugee. there is no rule of humanity or of law which demanded that our representative should go in search of him to give him an asylum that he did not seek and. so far as -we know. did not want. But finally and especially and conclusively. the practice of extraterritorial asylum is not sanctioned. and never has been. but is expressly forbidden by American policy. I recur now to Wharton.