No. 474.
Mr. Soteldo to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Washington, October 21, 1884. (Received October 21.)
Most Excellent Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge to your excellency the receipt this evening of your letter of yesterday, calling my attention to the long pending and still unsettled claim of Mr. John E. Wheelock; to the conversation held upon the subject with his Excellency General Guzman Blanco, during his recent visit to the Department of State, and asking me if I am prepared for the definitive settlement of the case, it being the desire of the President of the Republic to have it settled before the meeting of Congress in December next.
I have the satisfaction to tell your excellency in reply, that my Government promises to send me by the next mail steamer instructions which, concerning this case of Mr. Wheelock and all others pending, I solicited without loss of time after the conferences with his Excellency General Guzman Blanco. Unfortunately my letters reached Caracas when the season scarcely permitted attention to matters urgently imperative, not to be set aside.
For my part, I earnestly desire the early settlement of this case.
I am, &c.,