File No. 812.00/15898.
Special Agent Silliman to the Secretary of State.
Am requested to send the following textual communication, dated August 21, received by me this evening:
The Honorable Robert
Lansing
[and other signers of the note of August 11].
The Citizen First Chief of the Constitutional Army in charge of the Executive Power of the Union having read the circular note which your excellencies were pleased to address to him through the Honorable John R. Silliman, Confidential Agent [etc.] wherein you tender your good offices for the reestablishment of peace in the Mexican Republic, has seen fit to decide that I apply to you, as I hereby have the honor to do, and beg you to inform him whether the said note has been issued by authority of the Governments you worthily represent and in their names, or whether you have sent it in your private capacity and without any official character.
Accept [etc.]
Jesús Acuña,
In charge of the Department of Foreign
Relations.