Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/6369.

The Secretary of State to the American Consul at Ciudad Juárez.¹

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 27, 1913—8 p.m.

In order not to hinder the efforts of the administration at Mexico City to come to an understanding with the insurrectionary leaders in northern Mexico, the Department has today requested the Departments of War, Justice, the Treasury, and Commerce and Labor to withhold all action against the insurrectionary leaders who may enter the United States for the purpose of holding certain conferences at San Antonio, Texas. After conferring with the officials of the various Departments mentioned in the United States opposite your post, inform the insurrectionary leaders that they are at liberty to proceed to San Antonio for the conferences which it is proposed to hold there.

Knox.

1. The same to Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Porfirio Díaz.