Chargé Coolidge to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

(Mr. Coolidge reports that important edicts are being issued changing the structure of the government and preparing the way for [Page 352] constitutional government, and mentions, among the changes thus far made, the following: The consolidation of minor departments with boards, each of which is to have only one responsible head; the creation of a new board of communications controlling the postal service, telegraph service, railways, and steamships, and the prospective appointment of two councils, one to consider the national budget, the other to receive expressions of public opinion and deliberate thereon.)