Letter

PARRAGA, President to By the President: T. F. Bayard, May 16, 1885

Author
PARRAGA, President
Recipient
By the President: T. F. Bayard
Date
May 16, 1885
Type
Letter
Language
English
[Inclosure in inclosure 3 in No. 37.]

The United Magdalena Steam Navigation Company to Mr. Bayard.

[Telegram.]
May 16, 1885.

This company, on February 28 last, an American corporation owning steamboats upon the Magdalena River, United States of Colombia, which were seized for hostile use, requested your predecessor to protect and preserve its property.

On April 14 last we filed with you an additional statement of further seizure and damage to our property and business, calling your attention to pending treaty between this Government and that of New Granada (now United States of Colombia), invoking your active aid and intervention, and urging that our property and rights be fully protected by this Government. Further details of outrages were filed with you 11th instant.

To-day we are informed that the revolutionary General Gaitan has taken our steamers from Baranquilla out to sea.

We respectfully urge and request that this Government recapture our vessels so seized, being the property of an American corporation.

The United Magdalena Steam Navigation Company,

T. PARRAGA,
President.

H. B. PATTESON,
Secretary.
Topics
19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.