Mr. Romero to Mr. Olney.
Washington , January 25, 1897 .
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform yon, referring to the note (No. 186) which yon addressed to this legation December 1, 1896, relative to the arrest of Jesus Garcia on the boundary line between the two countries by Deputy Sheriff Roberts, of Arizona, and to my reply of December 3, 1896, whereby I advised you that I would transmit your note and its inclosures to the Government of Mexico, that I have received instructions from Mr. Mariscal, secretary of foreign relations of the United Mexican States, dated City of Mexico, January 14, 1897, in which he says that, in view of the statement Contained in your aforesaid note that the United States Government has been anxious to make amends to that of Mexico if it should be found that the territory of Mexico had been violated by Garcia’s arrest, and that, in order to ascertain the facts, it had specially commissioned Mr. Long to investigate the case and report upon it, and that, in your opinion, it appears from his report that the case is not one that demands the intervention of the Government of Mexico for the protection of its sovereignty or of the rights of one of its citizens from lawless invasion, and taking into consideration the statement made by you that Deputy Sheriff Roberts had no intention of violating the territory of Mexico, the Mexican Government does not insist upon that claim, being satisfied with Mr. Long’s report.
Be pleased to accept, etc.,