Scruggs to Given at Bogota on the 23d day of May, 1882. FRANCISCO J. ZALDÚA. José M. Uricoechea , Secretary for Foreign Affairs, April 18, 1883

No. 104. Mr. Scruggs to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

Sir: For the information of the Department [inclose herewith a copy; and translation of a convention of arbitration between Colombia and Salvador, dated in Paris, December 24, 1880. You will observe that the exchange of ratifications took place in Paris only on the 7th of January, 1882, and that whilst the Colombian President’s official proclamation of this treaty is dated May 23, 1882, its publication was delayed until the 9th instant; that is to say, fifteen months after the formal exchange of ratifications, and nearly four months after President Zaldúa’s death. It is noticeable, furthermore, that this treaty is substantially the same which Colombia sought to make with Guatemala in December, 1881; the only difference being that, in the last named, nothing is said about the proposed Panama congress, while the blank in the corresponding second article of the Paris convention is filled by the words the President of the United States of America.”

I have, &c.,