No. 827.
Mr. Whitehouse to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, November 20, 1888.
(Received November 28.)
No. 195.]Sir: In supplement to my dispatch No. 194, of
yesterday, I to-day sent you a telegram stating that I had been informed
that facilities would be granted to Major Ernst, and a Mexican engineer
appointed forthwith.
This message I sent you in consequence of a communication received this
morning from Señor Mariscal, informing me that the request has been made to
the department of public works in order that the latter may hasten to send
an engineer to cooperate with Mr. Garfias, the engineer in charge at Paso
del Norte, and his American colleagues in the matter of the dams being
constructed at that place, and that the same department may issue the
necessary instructions to facilitate Major Ernst in the accomplishment of
his mission.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure 1 in No.
195.—Translation.]
Mr. Mariscal to Mr.
Whitehouse.
Department of Foreign Affairs,
Mexico, November 19,
1888.
Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt of your esteemed note of to-day, wherein you were
pleased to inform me that Mr. Oswald H. Ernst, an engineer commissioned
by the Government of the United States to confer with the engineer to be
appointed by the Mexican Government in regard to the works under
construction opposite Paso del Norte, in the Rio Bravo, was to leave
Washington to-day.
In reply, I herewith advise you that I have furnished the necessary
information to the department of public works, in order that the latter
may hasten to send on the engineer who is to be associated with Mr.
Ignacio Garfias in that conference, and that the same department may
issue the requisite instructions to facilitate Mr. Ernst in the
accomplishment of his mission.
I renew, etc.,
[Inclosure 2 in No. 195.]
Mr. Whitehouse to
Mr. Mariscal.
Legation of the United States,
Mexico, November 20,
1888.
Sir: I am much gratified at the receipt of your
excellency’s note of yesterday informing me that your excellency had
made the necessary request to the department of public works, in order
that that department might hasten to send an engineer to co-operate with
Mr. Garfias and his American colleague concerning the construction of
wing-dams at Paso del Norte.
I can confidently assure your excellency that the prompt manner in which
your excellency’s Government have acceded to the request of the United
States in this matter will be duly and sincerely appreciated by my
Government. I also beg to express to your excellency, in the name of my
Government, hearty thanks for the facilities so courteously promised
Major Ernst.
With the full assurance that the result of the conferences between our
respective engineers may prove entirely satisfactory to both parties, I
renew, etc.,
