Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 812.2311/26.

The Secretary of State to the Governor of Texas.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 7, 1912.

The Government of Mexico desires the permission of the Government of the United States for a force of five or six hundred soldiers to enter American territory at Eagle Pass, Texas, and to proceed to Ciudad Juárez over the Southern Pacific Railway. The Federal Government proposes to stipulate that the Mexican troops go unarmed, their arms and equipment being shipped as baggage, and will also cause a small detachment of American troops to accompany them on the train as an escort. Before the issuance of definite instructions, I have the honor to request that you telegraph me, in accordance with the customary formality, the assurance that this course will be entirely agreeable to the State of Texas.

Knox.