Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/9181.

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

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, October 13, 1913—10 a.m.

548. Department’s October 12, midnight. General Huerta last night said that no violence whatsoever would be done to the deputies but that they must in many cases stand trial for sedition and treason. He requested me to assure my Government that they would be tried fairly by the civil courts.

Nelson O’Shaughnessy.