New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-17
TIE DIsPUIED BOUNDARY QUESTION:
Mr.. LoGAN's LETTER TO SECRETARY BLAINE.

Mr.. LOGANS LETTER TO SECRETARY BLAINE.
WAsHINGTON, July 1G.-Thc arrival III the
United states OF General Barros, President of the Re
public Of Guatemala and his understood, if not directly
asking the intercesso OF this Gov
ernen u the disputed question OF boundary between
Guatemala and Mexico, give fresh interest al he pres
ent me to the letters written to the state Department
by c. A. Logan late Minister OF the United states To
Central America which recently laid before Con-
gress in mass of other diplomatic correspondence hut
which have had only partial and ragmentary publications
In letter to Secretary Blaine, dated Guatemala CITY,
MAY "a 1881. Mr.. Logan said with regard to the DIS
puted boundary question: beheVc that mexico mas
every disposi,ion TO come TO an open rupture with
Guatemala on the boundary question: ana tha she may
do So BarIos intensely hated in Mexico, aud lie re-
turns the feeling with compound interest Though
Barros docs not realize it, yet his Government in one
sense is vcry weak one. His old opponents
. are held down with an iron hand, made up, so
to speak of mnsets and brass bands. BY themselves
they can do nothing; bat if Mexcowith few thousand
| men were to call away the troops of Guatemala
from the capital to defend the borders.
wont yfour hours would not elapse before the ccrcals
would he nassed into aggressive army ana being In
| the majority, BarriUs would soon BE- CrllsIcd'
In aroticr letter dated May ~ 1Ssl Mr.. Logan ap-
,sed the Secretary Of state that the Government OF
Guatemala had urged the United states through him to
accept territory Cenisa America and with rcieIence0
fhs proposition said "Ny policy has been eyasve
Wootfar who il altogether the best Informed upon
our political system IN Central Amerca tries TO argue
i
| Government against any unwalTantcd interference
! in the AFFAIRS Of our neghDOr, ana
especially the acquisition oi IcrIioi9
ana raj nor regrofuv, as II seemed TO me- informed me
tat with tho DEMOCRATIC parry ~ power the acquisition
al S0conuscO q part OF Mexico Gained by Guaicmaa)
wonId he bat a question Of da! Al this amounts
TO nothing however. except that when nope OF ASSIST
| auce from, the United States abandoned Guatemala
will undoubtedly make this proposition TO one OF the
European Powers" ~ 80,
In another aud later dispatch dated June 2s 1881.
Mr.. Logan still more explicit with regard I" ne
desire Barr1s to cedc TO the United states
or TO some European Power The territory III dispute IN
I'M. Ietter he said: The Government in de-
teruiniur 10 ccde SoconuscO her right TO it at
least, 10 foreign over, hopes to Eut ,siop
ID of her powerful nei%hbpi
The ioea Ia nOl bad one am confccn thdt a ycl, no
comnunca upon The subject win the reprtscnlalNe
OF any foreign power has taken place have DeNel
however that should the United states decGc any N
tcrcst in these affair, proposition WIZ nc maze III
other quarter shau Watch me m'IeI as 'iosel5
a possible. -
Tie exir;cts above quoted from Minister LoganS et
tcfs NAV perhaps taken indications of tho haurc
and inportancr 0l President BaTioss mission 10 m
United satcs. wnch is regarded III diplomatic circles
" much