File No. 812.00/654.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, January 18, 1911.
Excellency: With a view to adducing fresh elements of evidence that the Government of the United States may use in conjunction with its own, to establish certain responsibilities in the matter of violations of neutrality laws, I have the honor to apprise your excellency that, according to reports from the consul of Mexico at Tucson, Ariz., the Mexican rebel Ramón Vázquez tried to buy from a commercial house of that city 50 rifles for the rebels, and, in conversation with Mr. Anaya, deputy marshal of the United States, confessed that he belongs to the ranks of the rebels, whom he was induced to join by José M. Maytorena, who styles himself provisional governor of the State of Sonora by virtue of a commission issued to him by Francisco I. Madero, which Vázquez knew from having seen that document.
The foregoing data may serve as a basis for fixing the responsibility of Vázquez and Maytorena and establishing the fact that Francisco I. Madero is the promoter of the present seditious movements in the Mexican Republic, a fact which undoubtedly can be derived from the data now in the possession of the American officials and those supplied by this embassy.
I renew [etc.],