Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-04-01

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, 2eM March, 1926.
The Secretary Of State, to whom has been
referred by the President, the resolution of the
House of Representatives Of the 9th March,
1926, requesting him to transmit to that House
certain parts of the correspondence between the
Department Of State and the Minister Of the
u. States, at Mexico, and to communicate GER
tain information therein mentioned, has the
honor to report
That no answer was transmitted from this
Department ,o-the letter of Mr.. Poinsett, No.
%, under date at Mexico, on the 2Sth Septem-
Der, 1925. That No. Is, from Mr.. Poinset,,
under date Of the 18th Of the same month, and
No. %, relate to the same subject; the first stat
ing the obstacle which had occurred to the con-
clusion Of the commercial treaty, in the pre-
tension brought forward by Mexico to grant to
the American Nations of Spanish origin, spe-
cial privileges which were not 10 be enjoyed
by other Nations and the second narrating
the arguments which were urgedfor and against
ii, in the conferences between Mr.. Poinsett and
the Mexican Ministers that No. % was re-
ceiyed on the 9th Of December last, and the
answer of the 9th Of November, 1925, from
this Department 10 No. Is, having been pre-
pared and transmitted, superseded the ~necessi-
ty, as was believed, Of any more particular re-
ply TO No. %.
That extracts from the general instructions
to Mr.. P~oinsett, under date the 25th March,
1925, are herewith reported, marked A: that the
United States have contracted no engagement,
nor made any pledge to the Governments Of
Mexico and South America, or 10 either Of
them, that he United States would not permit
the interference of any foreign Power with the
independence or form of government Of those
Nations; nor have any instructions been issued,
authorising any such engagement or pledge
IL will be seen that the message of the late Pre-
sident ofthe United States, of the I'd December,
1925, is adverted 10 in the extracts now fur
nished from the instructions to Mr.. P~oinsetl,
and that he is directed to impress its princi-
pies upon the Government Of the United Next
can States. All apprehensions of the danger,
TO which Mr.. Monroe aliudes, Of an interference,
BY the Allied Powers Of Europe, to introduce
their political systems into this hemisphere,
have ceased. IL, indeed, an attempt by force
had been made by Allied Enropc to subvert the
liberties Of the Southern Nations on this Con-
tinent, and to erect, upon the ruins of their tree
institutions, monarChical systems, the People
of the United States would have stood pledged,
in the opinion of their Executive, not to any TO-
reign State, but to themselves and their p%os,eri-
", BY their dearest interests and highest duties,
to resist, to the utmost, such attempt; and it is
to a pledge of that character that MIR. Poinsett
alone refers,
That extracts from a despatch of Mr.. Poin-
sett, under date the 2lst August, 1925, marked
b.. are also herewith reported, relating to the
movements Of the French fleet in the West In
dia SEAS, during the last summer. That his
previous letter TO which he refers, on the same
subject, with The accompanying papers, lis &C
c,dentaily mislaid, and Cannot therefore now
be communicated, which is less regretted, be-
cause the information, contained in that now
rerorled, it is presumed, will be entirely sa-
tisfactory.
Ali which is respectfully submitted.
/ ii. CLAY.
The message was ordered to lie on the table,
and, with the accompanying documents, was
ordered to be printed.