Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1890

Mr. Blaine to Mr. Ryan.

Department of State,
Washington, May 29, 1890.

No. 255.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge, with warm appreciation of your effective efforts in the case of Shadrack White, the receipt of the draft for $7,000 in favor of that gentleman sent with your No. 297 of the 20th instant, the same being the indemnity paid by Mexico in satisfaction of White’s claim for damages, received in an attempt as deputy sheriff to arrest four Mexican soldiers who had made an incursion into Eagle Pass, Tex., in March, 1888.

I am, etc.,

James G. Blaine.