They were informed that--
This brief statement will indicate to you clearly the line of your duty.
You are not sent to Mexico for the purpose of negotiating any new
treaty, or of changing in any particular the ratified treaty which you
will bear with you. None of the amendments adopted by the Senate can be
rejected or modified except by the authority of that body. Your whole
duty will, then, consist in using every honorable effort to obtain from
the Mexican Government a ratification of the treaty in the form in which
it has been ratified by the Senate, and this with the least practicable
delay. ... For this purpose it may, and most probably will, become
necessary that you should explain to the Mexican minister for foreign
affairs, or to the authorized agents of the Mexican Government, the
reasons which have influenced the Senate in adopting these several
amendments to the treaty. This duty you will perform as much as possible
by personal conferences. Diplomatic notes are to be avoided unless in
case of necessity.
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