Chargé Hutchinson
to the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Caracas, December 10,
1904.
No. 372.]
Sir: Referring to my No. 369, of the 27th
ultimo, having to do with the New York and Bermudez Company affair, I
have the honor to inclose copies of notes exchanged between this
legation and the ministry of foreign relations.
The note of the minister is in answer to my note of November 26, which
the Department will find inclosed with my above-named dispatch.
My note of December 2 was sent to the minister to act as an explanation
of my note of November 26 and at the same time to acknowledge his note
of December 1, above mentioned.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure
1.—Translation.]
The Minister of Foreign
Affairs to Chargé Hutchinson.
Sir: In this office has been received the
note in which your honor communicated as having reached your
knowledge the rumor which has been spreading about as proceeding
from the Government of the Republic that the United States has
abandoned its request in regard to the removal of the receiver of
the mine which has been worked by the New York and Bermudez Company.
Your excellency also says in it that the Government of the United
States leaves for the moment the discussion relative to the removal
of the receiver and reserves the right of pressing the request if
deemed advisable.
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The Government of Venezuela finds it impracticable to take into
account the rumor which your excellency alludes to and the
publication of which is so unjustly attributed to it, the same way
that it has paid and will pay little heed to versions of any kind
whatsoever relative to this affair which have no official
confirmation.
Regarding the second item of the affair above mentioned, I refer
again to what I have expressed to the legation your excellency so
honorably has in charge.
I gladly, etc.,
[Inclosure 2.]
American Legation,
Caracas, December 2,
1904.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s kind note of yesterday
relating to, as your excellency states, a most unjustifiable rumor
which was heard in Caracas last week, but which, by virtue of its
very existence, made it my duty to put in writing and on record that
which I had previously only expressed to your excellency verbally,
namely, that 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 of the New York and Bermudez
Company’s property is consistent with and stands with the United
States Government’s request for a prompt and impartial trial.
I gladly avail, etc.,
