Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Sherman to Señor Romero.

Department of State,
Washington, January 28, 1898.

No. 311.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 24th instant, giving notice of the denouncement by your Government of the treaty of extradition between the United States and Mexico, signed December 11, 1861.

In view of the expression contained in your note of the conception of the Government of Mexico of the necessity of concluding a new convention, I take pleasure in expressing the willingness and readiness of this Government to enter into negotiations to that end.

Inasmuch as the present treaty will, by its terms, continue in force during the period of twelve months ensuing the notice of its denunciation, it is desirable that if a new treaty, mutually satisfactory, shall be agreed upon, it may be formed and ratified during the life of the present treaty.

Accept, etc.,

John Sherman.