Mr. Uhl to Señor
Romero.
Department of State,
Washington, November 24,
1893.
Sir: I have the honor to say that as appears
from a reference by the Secretary of War of 23d instant, communicating a
telegram from Gen. Wheaton of 20th instant, no information had reached
him that any armed party is assembling-on the American side “to cross
the Rio Grande.”
Accept, etc.,
Edwin F. Uhl,
Acting Secretary.
[Inclosure.]
General Wheaton
to the Adjutant-General.
[Telegram.]
San
Antonio, Tex., November 20, 1893.
Your dispatch, this date received. Commanding officer at Old Fort
Bliss had already been ordered to confer with commanding officer
Mexican troops at Juarez and other Mexican officials. No information
has as yet reached mo that any armed party is assembling on our side
to cross the Rio Grande. In-order to more effectively guard the
Upper Rio Grande, I recommend construction of barracks and quarters
for two troops of cavalry at New Fort Bliss.
Frank Wheaton, Brigadier-General,
Commanding.
