No. 836.
Mr. Romero to Mr. Bayard.

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform you, referring to the note which I addressed to you the 22d of October last, with which I forwarded a complaint from the governor of the State of Sonora, Mexico, caused by the quarantine of ninety days decreed the. 18th of August last by the governor of Arizona Territory against Mexican cattle, that I have received instructions from my Government to state to that of the United States that the measure decreed by that official possesses, besides the disadvantages stated by me in the aforesaid note, that of possibly giving rise to like reprisals on the commerce of the United States with Mexico, which my Government desires to encourage and extend.

It appears to me, further, that if that measure has the aim and extent attributed to it in Sonora, it does not agree with the spirit of the resolution of the Senate of the United States of March 5, 1886, which recommended to the President the conclusion of an arrangement with Mexico in regard to the passage of cattle from one country to the territory of the other.

Be pleased to accept, etc.,

M. Romero.