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.

Department of State,
Washington, August 19, 1890.

No. 155.]

Sir: I have received your No. 126 of the 28th ultimo, acknowledging the receipt on the 23d ultimo, through Mr. Ryan, of the Department’s telegram of the 19th of the same month, relating to the seizure by the Guatemalan Government of the arms on board the steamship Colima.

Consideration of this subject is necessarily deferred until your further dispatches shall place the whole case before the Department and the action of the Gutemalan Government upon your demands in respect to this unjustifiable seizure shall be known.

I am, etc.,

William F. Wharton.
Acting Secretary.