Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Gresham to Señor Romero.

Department of State,
Washington, November 18, 1893.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 15th instant, touching a robbery committed at Las Palomas, and the escape of the perpetrators into the United States; and also regarding the alleged organization of a band near Silver City, N. Mex., for similar operations in your country.

I have addressed the Secretary of War and the governor of New Mexico with a view to preventing the outrages you apprehend.

Accept, etc,

W. Q. Gresham.