File No. 412.11/67.
[Untitled]
Washington, March 8, 1912.
Congressmen from Texas state that Mexican consuls at El Paso and Douglas have made no apparent effort to adjust American claims and that there is fresh ground for dissatisfaction and probability of action by Congress. You will immediately call the attention of the Foreign Office to the promises it has made and point out the inability of this Department to understand the delay; you will urge immediate action and request that the Mexican Government instruct said consuls immediately to announce, in such a way that all claimants may know, that they are prepared to arrange the settlement of their claims at a specified time and place at which the claimants may present their claims either personally or by attorney. Also state that the Department is instructing the American consuls at Ciudad Juárez and Nogales to place themselves at the disposal of the Mexican consuls for the purpose of reaching the American claimants and securing such a presentation of their claims as may be appropriate.