Señor Romero to Mr. Gresham.
Washington, June 12, 1893. (Received June 12.)
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, with its in closures, said note being a reply to that which I addressed to you on the 28th of April last, wherein I made complaint, in pursuance of instructions received from the Government [Page 451] of Mexico, that a colored soldier belonging to the U. S. Army had fired several rifle shots on the 9th and 10th of that month at the sentry box north of the custom-house at Camargo, in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and asked that suitable measures might be taken to punish the guilty party, and to prevent the commission of similar outrages in future.
From the documents which you were pleased to send as inclosures to the note to which I am now replying, it appears that it has not been possible to identify the person who fired those shots, and that the officer in command of Fort Ringgold has taken the necessary measures to prevent a repetition of the outrages.
I regret to inform you that the measures adopted by the frontier military authorities do not appear to have been adequate to attain that result, since, as I informed you in my note of the 9th instant, the same outrage was repeated on the 2d. It is to be hoped that more efficient measures may be taken this time to prevent its repetition in future.
I shall, without delay, transmit your note with its inclosures to the Government of Mexico for its information.
Be pleased to accept, etc.,