United States Congressional Serial Set Volume 5257 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... the United States. Practically the decree, so far as the question of disturbing the possession of the New York and Bermudez Company, for the time apparently has been suspended, presumably as the result of protests from Washington. It has seemed to me that this should have been done in a gracious and generous manner. I think the plain disposition here is to have the matter determined by the courts, as you suggest. The original intention, so far as it could be ascertained, did not contemplate a determination of title by the courts prior to the dispossession of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company. What is known in commercial parlance as a "quick transaction' appears to have been desired. Resort to the courts is almost sure to bring its chain of embarrassments. It seems likely that either the Warner-Quinlan people or the New Yorkand Bermudez Company will be wholly dissatisfied with the finding of the court. and seek some further determination of the matter. The c-ourts here often labor under grave disadvantages. (Confidential. Since my residence here I have seen a majority of the members of the supreme court arrested, imprisoned, and finally removed from office for intimating that they would not decide a case in the manner desired by the Chief Executive. While on this general subject, 1 feel constrained to say, referring to the Department's instruction numbered 390, that in the foreign minister's note of January 13, inclosed in my number 539, the assurances aboxit the ability of the Government to protect property and rights are rather overstated. At the time the note was written the Government could not have guaranteed any sort of sufficient, ade quate, or prompt police or military protection in the district referred to. It was in a state of revolut...