Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 8, 1885

No. 158.

Mr. Bayard to Mr. Scruggs.

Department of State,
Washington, May 15, 1885.

No. 34.]

Sir: I have received your No. 187, of January 11 last, in regard to the public disorder in Colombia, and in which you suggest that a vessel of war of the United States be sent to Panama within easy call of the consul-general there in case of emergency.

Later events have (as you will have learned before this instruction reaches you) required the presence of most of the available vessels of the Home Atlantic and Pacific squadrons in Colombian waters. I am happy to express the Department’s pleasure at seeing that communication in that quarter is reopened.

I am, &c.,

T. F. BAYARD.