Mr. Uhl to Mr. Baker.
Washington, May 14, 1894.
Sir: * * * The additional affidavits you submit abundantly confirm the Department’s judgment upon the evidence previously reported, and establish the justice of the demands in every particular which Mr. Gresham’s instruction of the 12th instant directed you to make. You now state that you have “a pledge that the petty military governor of Rama shall be deprived of his office.”
It will be gratifying to learn that this pledge had been fulfilled in advance of the reasonable demand you were instructed to make, and it is confidently expected that the further assurance given you of the prompt trial of the guilty parties and their consequent punishment upon conviction will be faithfully observed.
Adding that the views and wishes of this Government in relation to this aggravated case may be best made known by reading to the minister for foreign affairs Mr. Gresham’s instructions of the 12th instant, furnishing him with a copy thereof, and that it is assumed you will have followed the usual course,
I am, etc.,