Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-14
BLANE'S VIEWS
Regarding the Acquisition of
More Land from Mexico.
Our National Faith Pledged
Against the Policy.

No Hope of Arizona Securing the Coveted
Deep Water Port on the Gulf of Cali
fornia by Mexico Ceding to the United
States Sufficient Territory for That
Purpose.
WASHINGTON, March Ia. - Senator
Sherman Wednesday, in asking the SEN
ate to discharge the committee on for
eign relations from further considera-
ton of and to lay on the table memo
rial of the legislative assembly of the
territory of Arizona, praying the presi-
dent and congress to enter into a negoti-
alton with the Republic of Mexico for
the cession of sufficient territory adioin-
ing Arizona on the southern boundary
to secure a deep water port upon the
Gulf of California, which would afford
an outlet for the products of the terri
tory. laid before the senate some very
interesting documents of a diplomatic
character.
Senator Sherman, as chairman of the
committee, referred the memorial to
Secretary Blaine with a request for his
opinion with regard to it, and this is the
secretary's reply:
Responding to your personal request
for my views in regard to this petition,
beg leave to say that can discern no
hopeful prospect of any negotiation
being successfully conducted with Mex
leo at the present time, even toward the
limited object in view. The temper of
the statesmen and people Of Mexico has
been only recently manifested with re-
gard to the alienation of any pa1t of the
National territory, by the prominence
given in certain circles on the Pacific
coast to a movement for the acquisition
of all or part of Lower California by
purchase. For the information of your
committee | transmit herewith copy of
a memorandum prepared by the Mexi-
can minister of q conversation which he
had with me on this subject ON June 6
last, together with Senior MariscaIs
memorandum of May 20, 1889, of
which Mr.. Romero gave me copy. l
hold, unhesitatingly, that the govern
ment of the United States is precluded by
obligations of traditional good faith
from approaching the government of
Mexico with view to acquiring any
part of Mexican territory, and | equally
believe that no administration of Mexico
could face the manifestations OF Ma
tional sentiment that would certainly at
tend any indication of a disposition to
infringe the provisions of the Mexican
constitution, which withhold from
the government the power TO cede Mexi-
can soil.
Moreover, even did the subject prom
Use favorable negotiation, the petition
fails to set forth the proposition in suffi-
cient detail. The northern and eastern
shore of the Gulf of California does not
appear to offer deep-water port until
Liberted Lobes) is reached, some 200
miles from the delta of the Colorado,
and the country between that coast and
the present southern limit of Arizona is
broken and appears ill-adapted to be a
highway of intercourse. Guaymas and
the Sonora railroad running thence to
Nogales constitute the present channel
of outlet from Arizona to the Gulf of
California"
Then follows a translation of the
memorandum which Senior Mariscal,
the Mexican minister for foreign affairs,
under date of May 90, 1899, sent to
Senior Romero, the Mexican minister to
the United States, and which the latter.
Blaine, as stated in the secretarys letter
to Senator Sherman.
The memorandum prepared by Min
lister Romero of the conversation had
with Secretary Blaine in June last, on
the occasion of the presentation of the
communication of Senor Mariscal, after
stating that at the secretarys request
the minister left with him the Spanish
text and the English translation of
Senior MariscaPs note. says:
"The secretary of state then informed
the minister that his personal views and
those of the United States government
with respect to the anne exation of Mexican
territory were expressed in his note to
Mr.. Morgan, the United States minister
at Mexico, dated June l, 1881, and which
was published in the diplomatic corre-
spondence appended to the presidents
message of that year. He added that the
United States government did not think
even remotely of acquiring any portion
of Mexican territory, and that it would
not support any project having such an
object in view, as the United States had
all the territory that they required for
their progress and welfare, and desired
no more.
"The secretary of state further stated
that the United States government could
not prevent the newspapers or the citi-
zens of this country from saying what
they pleased on that or any other sub
ject; but as regarded the acquisition of
Mexican territory by the United States,
he felt certain that the statesments made
were of no importance whatever, since
public opinion did not favor further ac-
QUESTIONS, and that, even if any other
administration should favor them, he
thought that it would meet with no sup
port In the country for such a design.
"In conclusion the secretary of state
promised the Mexican minister that he
would reply in writing to the note of the
minister of foreign relations of Mexico,
which had been read to him by the min
lister of that republic
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