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

Mr. Wharton to Mr. Mizner.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 31, 1890.

Mr. Wharton requests the office of the Central and South American Telegraph Company, at Galveston, Tex., to telegraph a message in cipher to Libertad, with directions to forward it by water, at the first opportunity, to the captain of the Ranger for Minister Mizner, at San José de Guatemala, to the following effect: Mr. Mizner is directed by Mr. Blaine, after opening communication, to secure its continuance, by the Ranger or Thetis, via Acajutla or Libertad, and maintaining it with Guatemala City; to use his good offices with the Government there, as well as with the Government of Salvador, for the restoration of peace; but to restrict himself to that duty solely, offering to advise in an urgent but friendly and impartial sense, and not to dictate. Mr. Wharton adds that Mr. Mizner should make known to either Government his insistence on the inviolability and privileged transmission of his correspondence with the legation in Mexico and the Department at Washington.