Señor Romero to Mr. Gresham.
Mr. Secretary: I bad to-day the honor to receive your note, dated yesterday, in which, with reference to that from this legation of August 5 last, you inclose extracts from a communication from the governor of [Page 467] the State of Texas with regard to the invasion of the Mexican territory at the point of Tres Jacales by Texas Rangers, under command of Capt. Frank C. Jones, in pursuit of Jesus Holguin, and you include copy of the four reports annexed to the said communication.
While the governor of the State of Texas admits that Capt. Jones crossed into Mexican territory in pursuit of Jesus Holguin he is sure, from reasons stated in said documents, that he did so not knowing that he had entered the Mexican territory, and therefore without intention of violating that territory or of offending the sovereignty of the country.
The Government of Mexico in complaining of that violation of its territory not only proposed, as indicated to you in my aforesaid note, that proper reparation should be made for this transgression of its territory, but that the respective authorities of the United States should be especially recommended to take care to prevent similar invasions for the future, and, although no mention is made of this incident in your note, nor in the portion inclosed in it of the communication of the governor of Texas, it is believed that the case of Capt. Jones will serve as a warning to avoid the repetition of such transgressions.
I forward to-day to my Government copy of your note and of the documents annexed to it.
I do not doubt that the Government of Mexico will see with satisfaction, the appointment made by the President of the United States of Col. Anson Mills as commissioner of this country on the international boundary commission to be organized in accordance with the convention of March 1, 1889, since that commission will contribute to prevent some of the difficulties that have arisen on the frontier. The Government of Mexico on its part had already appointed its commissioner, as I had the honor to inform you in yesterday’s note.
Accept, etc.,