No. 400.
Mr. Langston to Mr. Evarts.
Port-au-Prince, May 20, 1880. (Received June 2.)
Sir: I have the honor to advise you that there was published on the 13th instant, in the official section of Le Moniteur, the official journal of the Republic of Hayti, the statement that the president had just received a telegram from Mr. Laforestrie, secretary of state of finances and foreign relations, now absent upon a mission at Paris, to regulate the loan (Domingue), and the establishment of the National Bank of Hayti, to the effect that the efforts of the secretary in that behalf had proved entirely successful.
It is supposed, therefore, that the regulations contemplated in the recent legislation of the national assembly with regard to these subjects, of which you have been fully advised in my dispatches Nos. 246 and 247, will, at a reasonably early day, become accomplished facts.
Such belief is already producing its natural effect upon the community, which is by no means unfavorable to the present administration, increasing, as it would seem, popular confidence both in the wisdom and patriotism of the President.
I am, &c.,