File No. 812.00/5168b.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of War.
Washington, October 2, 1912.
Sir: With reference to this Department’s letter to you of to-day’s date, relative to the detention of Mexican insurrectionists who enter American territory, I have the honor to inform you that there are at present in the United States’ the following insurrectionary leaders: Pascual Orozco, sr. (and possibly some of his lieutenants, notably one Cordova, who is supposed to have served as a secretary of Pascual Orozco, jr., during the occupation of Chihuahua, mentioned in your telegrams to this Department of September 16, 18, 19, and 21), who is now in the custody of the agents of the Department of Justice at El Paso, Tex.; Emilio Campa, who is in the custody of the agents of the Department of Justice at Tucson, Ariz.; Rafael Campa, Huerta, Escanclón, Bermúdez, and Joaqúin Esquer, whose presence in Douglas, Ariz., was brought to the attention of your Department by this Department’s letter of September 301; and Major Azcarate and Captain de la Fuente, of the staff of insurrectionary leader. Salazar, whose capture at Candelaria, Texas, has been reported to your Department by General Steever. With reference to Pascual Orozco, sr., and Emilio Campa, the Department begs to state that it has informed the Department of Justice in the sense of the two letters which are being addressed to you by the Department of State and is requesting it to cooperate with the War Department so that when these men are released by the agents of the Department of Justice the War Department will be in a position to take such action as it may deem appropriate.
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