Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 127.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Hall.

Department of State,
Washington, October 26, 1888.

No. 633.]

Sir: I am in receipt of your No. 871, of September 29 last, announcing the settlement of the complaint of the Champerico Railway Company of San Francisco against the Government of Guatemala, through the surrender of the concession granted to Messrs. J. L. Bueron & Co. to construct a parallel road from the port of Ocos to Quezaltenango.

I desire to express the Department’s satisfaction that this question, which threatened a grievous injury to the contract rights of American citizens, whose capital and enterprise had been legitimately invested in Guatemala, is thus removed from the field of diplomatic discussion.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.