No. 212.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Morgan.
[Extract.]
Department
of State,
Washington, June 6,
1882.
No. 271.]
Sir: Acknowledging the receipt of your telegram of
the 13th ultimo, in relation to the reciprocal passage of troops across the
border when in pursuit of hostile Indians, I have now the pleasure to
inclose, for your information, a copy of a letter from the Secretary of War,
of the 31 st ultimo, wherein he announces that the proposed terms or
conditions upon which such passage may be made are acceptable to the General
of the Army and to himself.
I have also communicated a copy of Mr. Secretary Lincoln’s letter to Mr.
Eomero, the Mexican minister at this capital, for the information of his
government, he having forwarded hither a telegram similar in purport to your
own.
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I am, &c.,
[Inclosure in No. 271.]
Mr. Lincoln to Mr.
Frelinghuysen.
War
Department,
Washington, May 31,
1882.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 15th instant, transmitting a copy of a
note from the minister of Mexico at this capital, in relation to the
reciprocal passage of troops across the border, in pursuit of fugitive
Indians, and a copy of a telegram from the United States minister at the
city of Mexico, presenting the terms upon which such passage may be
made.
In reply thereto, I beg to state that this correspondence was duly
referred to the General of the Army, who, in returning the same,
expresses the opinion that “the terms proposed by the Mexican minister
in his communication of May 12, 1882, are just and fair, and should be
accepted pure and simple.”
The views of the General of the Army are concurred in by this department,
and should they receive the approval of the Department of State, the
necessary instructions will be issued by the military authorities to
carry the same into effect
Very respectfully, &c.,
ROBERT T. LINCOLN,
Secretary of
War.