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. 68.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Hall.

Department of State,
Washington, October 7, 1887.

No. 505.]

Sir: I have received your telegram of the 30th ultimo, saying that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the boundary convention with Costa Rica.

Similar information had already been received here through the diplomatic representatives of those Governments at this capital; and in a note to the Costa Rican minister, after acknowledging his upon that subject, I have said, “that I thus learn with regret that the expected course of direct settlement of the questions between two countries to which the United States are equally friendly is interrupted.”

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.