File No. 812.00/19039
Mr. Arredondo to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have received instructions from my Government to deliver the following note to your excellency:
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to refer to your excellency’s note dated the 7th of this month forwarded to me by our Confidential Agent, Licenciado Eliseo Arredondo, and in so doing I beg to say that I have received instructions from the Citizen First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, in charge of the Executive Power of the Union, to suggest through you to the Most Excellent the President Mr. Wilson the idea of appointing three commissioners to represent each one of our Governments to the end of holding at such a place as may be designated conferences and therein arriving at an early solution of the question relative to the evacuation of the American forces at present in Mexico, the drafting and approval of a protocol or convention for the reciprocal crossing of forces into either country, and also tracing to their source the incursions that have taken place up to date so as to be able to fix the responsibilities and finally settle the differences that are now pending or may arise between the two countries from this or a like cause; all of which to be subject to the approval of both Governments.
The Mexican Government proposes that the conferences above referred to follow their course in a spirit of the most sincere cordiality and with the earnest desire to arrive at a satisfactory settlement worthy of both countries, bearing in mind that if the suggestion herein offered should be accepted by the Government of the United States that should be the foremost recommendation to be made to the representatives that it appoints.
The Mexican Government considers this to be the most effective means of attaining the desired end and hopes that the Government of the United States may be pleased to declare whether it accepts the suggestion so as to put it into immediate practice, and send forthwith the names of the persons designated as representatives by the Government of Mexico.
Will your excellency deign to accept on this occasion the assurances of my most distinguished consideration.
Aguilar
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