Mr. Bearipré to Mr. Hay.
Bogota , April 27, 1903.
Sir: I have the honor to advise you that it seems quite impossible to tell just when the Congress will be convened. Forty days’ notice is required, and no notice has as yet been given.
In a conversation with the minister for foreign affairs I ascertained that the session would probably commence at some time between the middle of June and the 1st of July, but this is no more definite than the dates I have mentioned in my previous dispatches.
The Government is evidently “mending fences” in many election districts. It is said that owing to the disordered condition of the interior of the country, especially in the department of the Tolima, elections were illegally conducted, for which reason new elections were necessary. Hence the delay in calling Congress.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,