File No. 812.00/519a.
The Secretary of State to the Attorney General.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of this date in which you state [etc.].
In reply I have the honor to inform you that the following aide mémoire has been sent to the Mexican embassy to-day:
The Attorney General is prepared to receive from the Mexican embassy a full statement as to any legal evidence in its possession which would seem to warrant the arrest or detention of Francisco I. Madero and which it may desire to have laid before the competent legal authorities of the United States.
It is unnecessary to add that this being a legal question, it is not one in which this Department feels competent to express itself as to the propriety or sufficiency of the grounds for either the arrest or the detention of Madero.
I have [etc.],