Statement Regarding the Mexico Situation

RECOGNITION.
Recognition under the present circumstances cannot be made with the same effects and the same results as immediately after the assumption of power by the new administration. It would be misconstrued, now, as a yielding to pressure and force, and would result in the loss of great prestige.
If recognition is accorded it should be done in the following way.
First: By a preamble, recognizing the remarkable and unprecedented situation in Mexico, the desire of the United States to contribute to the restoration of order in a neighboring and friendly state, and the necessity, on account of the important matters daily pending between the two governments to establish full official relations with all of the benefits and obligations resulting therefrom.
Second: No recognition should be accorded unless the important international questions, like the Chamazal, the Colorado River and the specific claims falling under a clear rule of international law, shall be immediately closed upon the basis presented by the Government of the United States, and agreed to by the Government of Mexico in correspondence with the Ambassador and verbally.
Third: Recognition should not be accorded xxxxx unless an international claims commission, having jurisdiction over all kinds and classes of claims arising out of the revolutionary movements during the last three years shall be admitted in principle by the Mexican Government.
Fourth: Recognition should not be accorded unless ample guarantee for the holding of a constitutional presidential election, during the month of October shall be given; and this would involve the removal of the present Minister of Gobernacion, who is a pure creature of Huerta and the substitution, therefore, of a Mexican of force and power;— say Calero, — who is thoroughly committed to the principle of constitutional government.
Fifth: Recognition should not be accorded unless the federal government is able to furnish evidence of its ability to restore peace and order to the 26th parallel.
Sixth: Recognition should not be accorded unless and and arrangement can be made by which the American Government, in cooperation with the Mexican Government, will be permitted to cross the border and aid the federal authorities in restoration of order down to the 26th parallel, always giving ample stipulation for the retirement of our troops, whenever order and peace have been reestablished, in the judgment of the United States and Mexican comissioners duly appointed.
Recognition accorded in this manner will restore our lost prestige, impress and foreign and native opinion in Mexico and undoubtedly restore peace and prevent further bloodshed.