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

No. 818.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Whitehouse.

Department of State,
Washington, November 9, 1888.

No. 160.]

Sir: I have received Mr. Bragg’s No. 163, of the 15th ultimo, touching the case of B. C. Work.

The statements contained in Mr. Work’s affidavit before the court at Tamaulipas, as now shown by Mr. Bragg’s dispatch, are so entirely at variance with the representations heretofore made to this Department as to render those representations inadmissible as ground for further action on the part of this Government.

A copy of Mr. Bragg’s dispatch has been forwarded to the consul-general at Matamoros, from whom the complaint originally came, with a statement in consonance with the second paragraph hereof.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.