The boundary dispute whichlately threatened to embroil Guatemala and Mexico has happily yielded to pacific counsels. and its determination has. by the joint agreement of the parties. been submitted to the sole arbitration of the United States minister to Mexico. The commission appointed under the convention of February 18. 1889. to set new monuments along the boundary between the United States and Mexico has completed its task. As a sequel to the failure of a scheme for the colonization in Mexico of negroes. mostly emigrants from Alabama under contract. a great number of these helpless and suffering people. starving and smitten with contagious disease. made their way or were assisted to the frontier. where. in wretched plight. they were quarantined by the Texas authorities. Learning of their destitute condition. 1 directed rations to be temporarily furnished them through the War Department. At the expiration of their quarantine they were conveyed by the railway coipanies at comparatively nominal rates to their homes in Alabama. upon my assurance. in the absence of any fund available for the cost of their transportation. that I would recommend to Congress an appropriation for its payment.
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