File No. 812.77/132.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

By direction of the President the border consulates were to-day instructed as follows:

Telegraph Department how many American railway conductors and locomotive engineers who were formerly employed in Mexico are now idle in Texas border towns opposite your post.

Whatever information you may have on the subject you will send to the Department.

Huntington Wilson.