No. 96.
Mr. Hall to Mr.
Bayard.
[Extract.]
Legation of
the United States in Central America,
Guatemala, September 11, 1885.
(Received October 6.)
No. 410.]Sir: I have the honor to inclose a translation of a
communication from the acting minister for foreign affairs of Honduras,
received today, in which I am requested to inform the Department in regard
to the designs of ex-President Soto against the peace of that state. He
refers to and incloses a copy of a letter from Mr. Jacob Baiz,
consul-general of Honduras in New York, giving the information that A. D.
Straus & Co., of that city, have purchased the steamer City of Mexico,
with the object of sending her to the north coast of Central America in
response to a revolutionary movement. The Spanish minister here has
information that it is suspected that the steamer may be engaged to carry an
expedition to Cuba. President Bogran, however, believes that her destination
is against Honduras.
It would be strange that Baiz, who appears to have positive information on
the subject, should not, in the absence of the Hondurian minister, have
informed the Department of these movements.
* * * * * * *
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
410.—Translation.]
Señor Gomez to Mr.
Hall.
Ministry of Foreign Relations of Honduras,
Tegucigalpa, August 21, 1885.
Mr. Minister: With the certified copy, which I
have the honor to inclose, of a letter addressed to this ministry by the
consul-general of Honduras in New York, we are informed that the steamer
City of Mexico has been purchased with the intention to send her to the
north coast of this Republic in support of a revolutionary movement
which it is asserted will take place here.
In presence of these data, emanating from a source in which my Government
has all faith, the President has intsructed me to address you, and to
invite your serious attention to the attempts which are directed towards
a disturbance of the peace of this Republic, and which undoubtedly have
their origin in New York, where some of the enemies of the present
administration reside, and among whom figures in the first rank
ex-President Don Marco Aurelio Soto.
In compliance, therefore, with these instructions, permit me to call your
attention to this matter, and to beg that you will bring it to the
knowleege of the Government of the United States, to the end that it may
be pleased to instruct the proper authorities to exercise the greatest
vigilance to prevent the departure from New York or from any other place
in the United States of expeditions which may come to disturb the peace
of this country or of any other of the sister Republics of Central
America.
I have, &c.,
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[Inclosure 2 in No.
410.—Translation.]
Consul Baiz to
President Bogran.
New
York, August 1,
1885.
My Dear Sir and Friend: At this moment I have
learned that the house of A. D. Straus & Co. has purchased the
steamer City of Mexico, and I am assured that it is with the object of
sending her to the north coast of those Republics (Central America) in
response to a revolutionary movement. That house is the same which a
short time ago dispatched the steamer Dorian with a cargo of arms and
provisions for the coast of that Republic, and which returned without
having been able to discharge.
For want of time and not having the complete details I cannot be more
extended by this steamer, but I will be in my next.
I am, &c.,
