Mr. Wharton to Mr. Mizner.
Washington, September 18, 1890.
Sir: Mr. Henry R. Myers, consul of the United States at San Salvador, having temporarily quitted his post on account of ill health and gone to his home in South Dakota, writes thence to the Department, under date of the 8th instant, in relation to the recent attack upon the consulate and the reparation accorded, upon your demand, by the Provisional Government of Salvador. In the course of his communication, and referring to the interval between the attack and the restitution of the flag, Mr. Myers makes the following statement:
I was prohibited from sending any report of the true condition of affairs to you [this Department] or to Minister Mizner, and I was further refused a pass to leave the country, except on the condition that my exequatur should be recalled at the same time, thus being cut off from all communication with my Government, and was practically a prisoner in the country.
It is desirable that the allegation of Mr. Myers be investigated. It is confidently assumed that the Provisional Government of Salvador, having so frankly and promptly made due amends for the injury to the consulate and to the flag of the United States, will take proper action in respect to any Salvadorian authority who may be ascertained to have prohibited Mr. Myers’s correspondence with his superiors or refused him a pass to leave the country.
I am, etc.,
Acting Secretary.