File No. 702.1211/213.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.

No. 20.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note No. 1358, of the 11th instant, in which you bring to the attention of this Department, for appropriate action, a report from the consul of Mexico at Douglas, Ariz., that on the 10th instant a group of rebels gathered in front of the Mexican consulate at Douglas and offered insults to the personnel of the consulate.

In reply, I have the honor to inform your excellency that a copy of your note has been transmitted to the governor of Arizona, through the Department of the Interior, for investigation and appropriate action.

Accept, etc.,

P. C. Knox.