A year passed. The investigation with the care and deliberation clue to a question involving important international relations took place. At last. after reports from the officers who were charged with the inquiry into the facts. the claim of the Government of Italy that. of the eleven men hilled. the larger part were subjects of the Italian Government. was much reduced. in fact. nationality or naturalization appeared uncertain as to several of the men killed. though several were undoubtedly Italian subjects. Inathe communications which. as the gentleman from Kentucky knows well. are usually oral between negotiators under these circumstances. a point was reached where it was found by the Secretary of State that the whole matter in controversy between the two countries could be settled immediately by paying right ]]lien a sum. which amounts to less even than the lives of the ubjects of Italy who had been killed. as it appeared by the rep~orts. in disregard of law and treaty. would have been accounted by the State laws in the matter of damages in cases of persons losing their lives by railroad accidents. $5.000 each. Then. as that "emergency" had come when. without a single word of further discussion. by the payment of this little sum of $25.000. the two nations could be put instantly at peace and the whole question disposed of[Here the hammer fell.]
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