No. 25.
Mr. Hall to
Mr. Frelinghuysen.
[Extract.]
Legation of
the United States
in Central America,
Guatemala, January 21, 1884. (Received February
15.)
No. 195.]
Sir: In my dispatch No. 189, of the 3d instant, I
inclosed a copy of my note of the 24th December ultimo, addressed to the
minister for foreign affairs of Salvador, in relation to certain provisions
of the new constitution of that state touching the rights of foreigners and
the prerogatives of foreign representatives.
I have now to transmit a copy and translation of the minister’s reply, dated
the 4th instant, to my note above mentioned, in which I am informed that the
Government of Salvador accepts as sincere the views expressed by me, and,
while dissenting therefrom as to the provisions in question affecting the
rights of foreigners or the prerogatives of foreign representatives, it
declares at the same time that it will continue to accept the diplomatic
intervention of foreign representatives in conformity with the treaties in
force and the general provisions of international law.
* * * * * * *
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure in No.
195.—Translation.]
Señor Gallegos to
Mr. Hall.
Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Republic of
Salvador,
San
Salvador, January 4,
1884.
Mr. Minister: By your excellency’s courteous
communication of the 24th ultimo the Salvador Government has been
informed that some of the provisions of the new constitution of the
Republic have attracted your attention, being identical with those which
in 1879 were the object of the protest of one of your predecessors in
Guatemala, in virtue of their affecting as well the rights of your
fellow-citizens as your own rights and prerogatives as a foreign
representative. With this view, following the
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same instructions given previously by your
Government, your excellency stated that wherein the provisions referred
to affect the rights of your fellow-citizens you will ask that they may
be respected and their just claims attended to in all cases in which
diplomatic intervention may be justified by international law.
My Government at once accepts as sincere your excellency’s courteous
manifestation, and although dissenting essentially in the appreciation
of the provisions alluded to, which, in its judgment, far from
impairing, recognize the rights of foreigners to the same extent and
under the same guarantees as of Salvadorians, has no objection to
declare at the same time, which it does through my medium, that in the
future, as in the past, it will continue to accept the diplomatic
intervention of foreign representatives in conformity with the treaties
in force and with the general provisions of international law.
Having thus answered your excellency’s referred to communication,
I have, &c.,
