No. 765.
Mr. Bayard
to Mr. Connery.
Department
of State,
Washington
,
February 15,
1888.
No. 263.]
Sir: I have received your No. 301, of the 6th,
stating that the Mexican Government has devised no plan for determining
questions arising under [Page 1112] the
boundary convention of November 12, 1884, between that Republic and the
United States.
I have forwarded a copy of your dispatch to the Hon. William H. Crain, of the
House of Representatives, for his perusal, in connection with my letter to
him of the 13th instant, covering the draught of a joint resolution looking
to the creation of an international commission for the settlement of
questions arising under that convention. I add for your information and
fires a copy of that letter.
I am, etc.,
[Inclosure in No. 263.]
Mr. Bayard to Mr.
Crain.
Department of State,
Washington
,
February 13,
1888.
Sir: In response to the request contained in
your letter of the 6th instant, that I should furnish you with a draught
of a hill or resolution the presentation and discussion of which may
serve to indicate the feeling of Congress with respect to the suggestion
heretofore made by me and concurred in by the Secretary of the Treasury
that an international commission be created by the United States and
Mexico to apply to the settlement of questions arising from changes in
the bed of the Rio Grande the rules laid down in the convention of
November 12, 1884, between the two countries, I have the honor to
propose the following draught of a joint resolution to the end in
view:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the
President be, and he hereby is, requested to negotiate with the
Government of Mexico for the creation of an international commission to
determine, according to the rules laid down in the convention between
the two countries signed at Washington the 12th day of November, 1884,
all questions touching the boundary line between the United States and
Mexico where it follows the bed of the Rio Grande and the Colorado
River.
I have, etc.,
