Chargé Hutchinson
to the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Caracas, November 27,
1904.
No. 369.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of the Department’s message of yesterday, which arrived at half
past 7.
The above was a reply to my telegram sent yesterday morning, in which I
told the Department that a report was circulating here that the United
States Government had abandoned its request for the
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removal of the receiver of the New York
and Bermudez Company’s property.
Immediately upon receiving the Department’s reply, I sent a note to the
minister of foreign relations (copy inclosed), which puts on record that
the above-named request has not been abandoned. This is the only note I
have written in connection with the Department’s recent telegraphic
instructions, because I was afraid of making some error, without a
fuller explanation of the Department’s views.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
Chargé Hutchinson to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
American Legation,
Caracas, November 26,
1904.
Mr. Minister: It has come to my knowledge
that there is a report current, as having come from the Venezuelan
Government, that the Government of the United States has abandoned
its request for the removal of the receiver of the New York and
Bermudez Company’s property.
I beg to call your excellency’s attention to the fact that I
expressly told your excellency that the Government of the United
States did not do more than drop the discussion of its argument in
this respect for the moment, reserving the privilege to press its
request further if necessary. The request of the Government of the
United States to the Venezuelan Government to instruct its
attorney-general to move the court to discharge the receiver is
consistent with and stands with the United States Government’s
request for a prompt and impartial trial.
I gladly avail, etc.,
