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

Mr. Ryan to Mr. Blaine.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Mexico, July 30, 1890. (Received July 31.)

Mr. Ryan reports that the Guatemalan minister to Mexico has always assured him that the Guatemalan Government in no way interferes with either official or other correspondence. Dispatches thence are regularly, and, as he claims, without censorship, received by the agent of the American Associated Press, though the Mexican minister for foreign affairs is unable to receive anything from the Mexican minister to Guatemala. The minister for Guatemala to Mexico has telegraphed, at Mr. Ryan’s request, to the Guatemalan minister for foreign affairs for positive information, and inviolability will be demanded if no satisfactory reply is received.