Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 812.77/136.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador and the American Consuls at Nogales, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, Nuevo Laredo, and Matamoros.

[Identic telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 14, 1912.

In order to prevent any possible misunderstanding of the Department’s May 13, you are informed that the data requested therein was ordered obtained by the President personally, and is desired for the purpose of securing employment in the United States for these idle men.

Huntington Wilson.