Señor Cayetano Romero to Mr. Foster.
Washington , December 16, 1892 .
My dear Mr. Foster: I have had the honor to receive your note of yesterday, in which you are pleased to reply to those I took the liberty to address to you on the 13th and 14th instants, in regard to the assembling on the Texan frontier of fresh bands of bandits and of the disturbances caused by them, and to inform me that the honorable Secretary of War to whom you gave copies of said notes, assured you that he had done, would continue to do, all that he can to repress such disorders and to punish the disturbers, adding that although the Government of the United States is contending against the obstacles presented by the topography of the country and the scarce population on that long boundary line, formed by an easily forded river, to the pursuit and arrest of said bandits, it will endeavor to overcome them as far as possible and will omit no effort to duly comply with its international obligations.
I at once forward your above-mentioned note to the Government of Mexico, which I do not doubt will receive with satisfaction the assurances given by that of the United States to faithfully comply with its duties of friend an neighbor to Mexico, and will desire a successful termination to so important an undertaking.
I am, etc.,