File No. 812.00/3063.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.
Washington, March 18, 1912.
My Dear Mr. Ambassador: Referring to previous correspondence with regard to Mr. Emilio Vásquez Gómez, I beg to inform you that in a letter dated March 3 the Attorney General reported to the President that the Department of Justice has had Mr. Gómez under careful observation for some time past, but that he has been carefully advised by counsel and up to the present time that Department has been unable to discover any violation by him of the so-called neutrality statutes of the United States. The Attorney General adds that the writing of letters in this country and the forwarding of them through the United States mails into Mexico, inciting an uprising in Mexico against the Government there, is not a violation of our neutrality laws. The Attorney General states that he will continue to follow Mr. Gómez carefully and should any provision of our statutes be violated his arrest will immediately be ordered.
I am [etc.]