File No. 312.52/305.
[Untitled]
Washington, June 2, 1914.
My Dear Mr. Secretary: With reference to the confiscation of cotton by the Constitutionalists from Spanish subjects, I beg to inform you that I have today received advice from El Paso, Texas, according to which the revolutionaries have not only refused to permit all the Spaniards to redeem their cotton on the payment of $15 per bale, but they have refused $20 from a great many of my compatriots.
Their animosity seems to be specially directed against Sr. Arocena, who is the largest grower, and Senores Turanzas and Olano, on the ground that these gentlemen have been very active in the measures they have taken to avoid being plundered by the Constitutionalists; and I beg to call your attention once more to this situation, which I consider of a serious character, in the hope that you will exercise all your influence in order to ameliorate it.
Believe me [etc.]