Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1892

Mr. Scruggs to Mr. Foster.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, September 24, 1892. (Received September 24.)

Mr. Scruggs reports that the situation remains unchanged, nothing new having occurred, and transmits a request of the Government of Venezuela that the steamer South Portland, laden with munitions of war in New York, be prevented from entering Puerto Cabello by the naval forces of the United States.