Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 67.
Mr. Hall to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States in Central America,
Guatemala, September 28, 1887. (Received October 14.)

No. 712.]

Sir: With reference to my dispatch. No. 699, and to other correspondence relating to the recent boundary treaty between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, I have the honor to transcribe the following translation of a telegram of this date, received this evening from President Carazo, of Nicaragua: “Congress rejected convention; arbitration remains.”

Which means that the Nicaraguan Congress having rejected the treaty of the 26th July last with Costa Rica, the two Governments must now fall back on the convention signed in Guatemala on the 24th of December, 1886, which provides for the arbitration of the President of the United States of the question as to the validity of the treaty of April 15, 1858.

I have, etc.,

Henry C. Hall.