Spanish Consul's Petition

BLATCHPORD, District Judge.

The petitioner, who is the consul of her majesty the Queen of Spain at the port of New York, represents that he has received from the judge of the Southern district of Santiago, in the island of Cuba, a commission, empowering him to take the testimony of certain witnesses named therein, to be used in a criminal prosecution for swindling, a translation of which commission he produces, and he prays that a summons may be issued by me requiring the witnesses to attend and testify. I have no power to issue the summons asked for. The only provisions made by congress, on…