Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1883

No. 405.
Mr. Morgan to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Legation of the United States,
Mexico, June 4, 1883. (Received June 21.)

No. 638.]

Sir: On the receipt of your telegram of the 25th of May last, informing me that I might cause “amparo” proceedings to be instituted for the protection of Captain Caleb, of the Adriana, and employ proper counsel for his defense, and that of the vessel, in the appellate court, I called on Señor Romero Rubio and submitted the question to him.

On the 2d instant Señor Rubio, in a note of that date, informed me that in his opinion, the case must be prosecuted at Culiacan, before the circuit court.

Señor Rubio kindly offered to recommend to me some friends of his in Culiacan should the case go there on appeal, but as I have been informed that Captain Caleb was already provided with competent counsel (see my dispatch No. 634, May 30, 1883), I have not considered it necessary to accept of his kind offer.

I am, &c.,

P.H.MORGAN.

[Inclosure in in No. 638.—Translation.]

Señor Romero Rubio to Mr. Morgan.

June 2, 1883.

My Dear Friend: We can do nothing in this capital in the affair of the Adriana, because, according to Mexican legislation, it is necessary in the second instance to bring the affair before the circuit court. The circuit court before whom this affair should be brought is now at Culiacan. It is therefore at that place where the appeal should be taken, both in the civil and criminal proceeding, in the event that an appeal is taken.

Should this be the case, I have friends in Culiacan whom I can especially recommend if you think it necessary.

I remain, &c.,

M. ROMERO RUBIO.