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. 412.11/111.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, June 6, 1912.

I am informed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs that all the border claims have now been examined. He considers that some of them are exorbitant and a few untenable. But in order to avoid Congressional action at Washington he wishes to pay the majority of the awards as soon as possible.

Schuyler.