Señor Romero to Mr. Gresham.
Washington, July 10, 1894.
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge your note of yesterday in which you inform me that your Department will suspend its decision in regard to the extradition of Inez Ruiz and Jesus Guerra, asked for by the Government of Mexico, until the Federal court of Texas, to which the accused have applied, decided the question of granting a writ of habeas corpus for which application has been made by them. I have the honor to inform you that the Mexican consul in San Antonio notified me in a letter of the 5th instant that the counsel of Ruiz and Guerra was endeavoring to procure a certificate of their having declared intention to acquire United States citizenship; but this not being true, such evidence will necessarily be fraudulent, and its fraudulent character can be easily demonstrated.
Accept, etc.,