No. 60.
Mr. Baker
to Mr. Gresham.
Managua, June 7, 1894. (Received July 3.)
Sir: In responding to yours, dated May 12, cautioning me to “take care to say nothing tending to disparage Nicaragua’s rightful claim to paramount sovereignty or to encourage pretensions to autonomous rights inconsistent therewith,” I will say that I have on all proper occasions affirmed Nicaragua’s rightful claim to paramount sovereignty over the Mosquito territory, but while conceding this, I have expressed the hope that the American citizens who have gone to that territory and invested money and labor and procured titles to property under certain treaty stipulations will be protected in the rights that they have acquired by proper arrangement between the two Governments.
I have, etc.,