Office of the Historian

File No. 812.00/6369.

The Secretary of State to the Secretary of War.1

[Telegram.]
Department of State,
Washington, February 27, 1913—midnight.

Referring to the Department’s telegram to you of February 23, 1913, I have the honor to state that the Department is in receipt, through the Mexican Embassy at this capital, of a request from the present administration in Mexico that David de la Fuente and the persons who accompany him be permitted to proceed to San Antonio, Texas, there to hold certain conferences in which the administration at Mexico City is greatly interested. I therefore have the honor to suggest, for the reasons given in the telegram above referred to, that De la Fuente and such other insurrectionary leaders and men as are necessary to the proposed conferences at San Antonio be permitted for the present to enter the United States and freely to move about as the necessities of the conferences may demand. This suggestion applies equally to insurrectionary leaders who may be at Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, Nuevo Laredo, and elsewhere along the American border and whose presence at the conferences may be essential.

Knox.

  1. The same to the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, with the following introductory paragraph:

    “With reference to my telegram to you of February 23, I have the honor to quote the following telegram which I have just sent to the Secretary of War and to request corresponding action on the part of your Department in matters pertaining to it.”

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