Mr. Tripp to Mr.
Gresham.
United
States Legation,
Vienna, December 21,
1893. (Received January 5.)
No. 58.]
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for
your information copies of correspondence between this legation and the
imperial and royal ministry of foreign affairs at Vienna, relative to
the genuineness of a naturalization certificate issued by the municipal
court of Milwaukee, Wis., to a former subject of Austria, Cajetan Kern,
held by the provincial court at Linz, on suspicion of having violated
the provisions of the military laws of this monarchy, and his subsequent
release.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
58.—Translation.]
Count Cziraky
to Mr. Tripp.
Vienna, November 1,
1893.
A certain Cajetan Kern, of Berndet-Schlag, in Upper Austria, 25 years
old, is held by the imperial royal provincial court at Linz, on
suspicion of having violated paragraph 45 of the military law of
April 11, 1889, No. 41.
Cajetan Kern has produced the accompanying certificate of
naturalization and declared himself to be an American citizen.
The above-named court is not in a position to judge of the
genuineness and validity of a document presented by a private
person, issued by a foreign authority and verified by nobody, and
has therefore addressed itself to this ministry in order to
ascertain whether the document in question is an authentic proof of
the regularly made naturalization of the above-named individual in
the United States of America.
To this end, the imperial and royal ministry of foreign affairs has
the honor of soliciting the kind intervention of the honorable envoy
of the United States, and to request him to give his opinion as
early as convenient regarding the documents in question, in order
that the ministry of foreign affairs be enabled to convey the
desired information to the provincial court at Linz.
The undersigned avails himself, etc.,
Cziraky,
For the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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[Inclosure 2 in No. 58.]
Mr. Tripp to
Count Kalnoky.
United States Legation,
Vienna, December 4,
1893.
Your Excellency: Referring to the esteemed
note of your excellency, No. 45033, of date November 1, 1893, in
reference to the naturalization of Cajetan Kern, I have the honor to
say that I am now in receipt of an abstract of the record of the
municipal court of Milwaukee, Wis., in the United States of America,
covering the naturalization of Cajetan Kern, and I herewith inclose
for the consideration of the honorable imperial and royal ministry
of foreign affairs of Austria-Hungary, and for transmission to the
honorable court at Linz, where proceedings are pending against the
said Cajetan Kern, the copy of such record accompanied by the
certificate and seal of this legation, and permit me at the same
time to avail myself, etc.
[Inclosure 3 in No.
58.—Translation.]
Count Cziraky
to Mr. Tripp.
Vienna, December 11,
1893.
Sir: The imperial and royal ministry of
foreign affairs expresses its sincere thanks for the favored note of
December 4 last, containing information in regard to the legal
naturalization of a former Austrian subject, one Cajetan Kern, in
the United States of America. The ministry of foreign affairs has,
however, the honor to inform the honorable envoy of the United
States that by a communication received in the meantime from the
imperial and royal provincial court in Linz, before whom the said
Cajetan Kern was called to account on suspicion of having violated
the provisions of the military law, it appears that proceedings
against the same have been dismissed.
The undersigned avails himself, etc.,
Cziraky,
For the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
