The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Merry.
Washington, July 21, 1906.
The President has received the cablegrams expressing the congratulations and thanks of the delegates of the Peace Conference of the Marblehead, and wishes you to express to the several delegates his sincere thanks and in turn his hearty congratulations upon the honorable and satisfactory outcome of their efforts. Earnestly desiring, as he does, the peace of Central America, he entertains the highest hopes that the treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation which is about to be negotiated will be at once the precursor and guarantee of better understandings and continued friendship among the peoples of Central America, to which end he pledges his earnest and friendly cooperation, in full reliance upon the continued personal interest and support of President Diaz, to whom the success of this negotiation is so largely due.