818.00/823
Vice President Marshall to the Secretary of
State
Washington, July 25,
1919.
Dear Mr. Secretary: The rules of the Senate
provide that no communication from a foreign government shall be
handed down, unless transmitted by the President.
I accordingly hand you the enclosed for his determination.
Very respectfully,
[Enclosure—Telegram]
The National Congress of
Costa Rica to the Senate of the
United States
The National Congress of Costa Rica formed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate greet the Senate of the United
States and want to put before your high knowledge that last
Saturday nineteen of July a fourth filibuster invasion came into
the Costa Rican territory coming from Nicaragua. This has
happened although the Nicaraguan Government has declared several
times its neutrality and also having put before Washington
through its Legation on the ninth of June last that the
invasions had ended and that the Nicaraguan authorities on their
border line had concentrated and disarmed the said filibusters.
This invasion has been defeated like the others by the Army of
Costa Rica but the filibusters are actually on the other side of
the Costa Rican border without being disarmed or concentrated by
the Government of Nicaragua as it is expressly ordered in the
Peace and Friendship Treaty signed at Washington the twentieth
of December nineteen hundred and seven by the Central American
Government of Nicaragua. In the note of its Secretary of State
to the International Central American Office on the 20th of May
ultimo transcribed immediately by said Office in their note of
the 21st of June Congress of Costa Rica contemplated with
satisfaction the noble and justible [justifiable?] attitude of the Senate of the United
States of America when [it] ordered the investigation of the
motive of the transgressions that this nation is suffering from
the Government of Nicaragua which is today under the protection
of the United States Marines. The Congress of Costa Rica has the
most high faith in the intervention of the Senate of the United
States of America and that it will be of a great benefit for the
peace of this small republic who is strictly fulfilling its
international duties and where the foreign colonies live and
work under a perfect peace and tranquility under the strength of
the law always considered
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and esteemed and without any one of their
members having a cause for a complaint and where although [in
spite] of the actual invasions from Nicaragua the course of
commerce and of the work is always maintained. It is in view of
all those notorious circumstances that the Congress of Costa
Rica defending the interests of all our people and so that it
may be taken account of in the before mentioned investigation
and that to inform that high body of the new attempt of which it
has been the victim we offer to demonstrate with the affidavits
of the prisoners of war from Nicaragua the protection which that
country has given and now gives to the filibusters by donating
men, machine guns and ammunition taken by officers of the active
service of the Government in the military arsenals at Managua
and transported to the border with the overlook and help of the
Nicaraguan authorities.
Francisco A.
Segreda
Secretary of the
SenateJulio
Esquivel
Secretary
of the House of Representatives 