No. 235.
Mr. Foster
to Mr. Evarts.
Mexico, July 30, 1877. (Received August 10.)
Sir: At the date of my last dispatch on current events, the only portion of the republic which was not fully recognizing the authority of [Page 426] General Diaz was a part of the State of Guerrero, where the former governor, General Alvarez, has risen against the military governor sent out by General Diaz, and driven him from the State. Soon after, however, an arrangement was entered into between Alvarez and Diaz, whereby the authority of the latter was recognized and a new military governor appointed until elections could be held and the State restored to the constitutional order. Since that adjustment, general peace has prevailed in the country, with the exception of the occurrences on the Rio Grande frontier, to which reference is made in other dispatches.
The elections for senators to complete the Congress of the union have been held during the present month, without any disturbance of the peace, and with very little attention being given to the event. Popular elections in this country seldom, if ever, are participated in by more than a small minority of the legal voters; and upon this occasion there was less participation than usual.
The anti-revolutionists considered their candidates excluded by the condition of the convocatory decree, which requires all senators elected to take an oath to support the revolutionary plan of Tuxtepec. On the other hand, the extreme revolutionists, styled the “pure Tuxtepecanos,” who have bitterly opposed the re-establishment of the senate as contrary to the plan of Tuxtepec, have also in a great measure abstained from taking part in the elections. The consequence has been that the elections receive very little attention, and so far as the results have been announced, it is believed that ministerial candidates have been chosen in almost all cases.
Since my dispatch, No. 545, of the 16th ultimo, advising you of the recognition of the Diaz government by various foreign governments, the Italian Government has taken action in the same direction; so that the United States is now the only power represented in Mexico which has not acted upon the question.
I am, &c.,