Office of the Historian
No. 101.

Mr. Bayard to Mr. Pringle.

Department of State,
Washington, November 28, 1885.
No. 307.]

Sir: I have received Mr. Hall’s dispatch of September 29 last, No. 427, relative to the plottings of ex-President Soto against the peace of Honduras and the part taken in the same by the British steamer Dorian, through the assistance of Messrs. A. D. Straus & Co., of New York.

I have inclosed a copy of Mr. Hall’s dispatch to the Attorney-General and have observed that it might be proper to instruct the district attorney at New York City in regard to the alleged operations of Messrs. A. D. Straus & Co., to the end that in case they were infringing the neutrality laws of this Government all necessary steps could be taken in the premises.

I am, &c.,

T. F. BAYARD.