Mr. Romero to Mr. Sherman.
Washington, September 30, 1897.
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform you that I have received instructions from Señor Mariscal, secretary of foreign relations of the Mexican United States, dated the 18th instant, in which he states that in the remaining three months of the International Water Boundary Commission, organized according to the convention of March 1, 1889, the term of which has been prolonged by later conventions, it will not be possible for it to examine and decide matters now pending and new ones that have been brought before it, for which reason the Government of Mexico thinks proper that a new convention be signed for the purpose of extending for one year the term stated, and with this object he has authorized me to sign the new convention if the Government of the United States be inclined to conclude it.
I will have the honor to forward to you a draft of the convention which may serve as the basis of such negotiations in case the Government of the United States be disposed to enter into it.
Accept, etc.,