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

Mr. Uhl to Señor Romero.

Department of State,
Washington, November 24, 1893.

Sir: I have the honor to say that as appears from a reference by the Secretary of War of 23d instant, communicating a telegram from Gen. Wheaton of 20th instant, no information had reached him that any armed party is assembling-on the American side “to cross the Rio Grande.”

Accept, etc.,

Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary.

[Inclosure.]

General Wheaton to the Adjutant-General.

[Telegram.]

San Antonio, Tex., November 20, 1893.

Your dispatch, this date received. Commanding officer at Old Fort Bliss had already been ordered to confer with commanding officer Mexican troops at Juarez and other Mexican officials. No information has as yet reached mo that any armed party is assembling on our side to cross the Rio Grande. In-order to more effectively guard the Upper Rio Grande, I recommend construction of barracks and quarters for two troops of cavalry at New Fort Bliss.

Frank Wheaton, Brigadier-General, Commanding.