Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 711.1216M/148.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, December 1, 1910.

Full authority has been given to the Mexican ambassador at Washington to arrange with the Department an exchange of notes for the immediate construction of the protective works on the Colorado River. He has been fully instructed, in line with the wishes of the Department. The Mexican Congress will be asked at once to grant free entry of material.