The Secretary of State to Ambassador Wright .
Washington , November 12, 1906 .
(Mr. Root instructs Ambassador Wright to explain to the Japanese Government that the provisional Government of Cuba exists under the Cuban constitution and that it is so established pending the election of a President; that a commission given a Cuban consul by Mr. Palma prior to September 29, 1906, is still valid; that authority for American consuls to act for Cuba was asked in 1902 only, subject to their being displaced by regularly appointed Cuban consuls; and that this Government, which itself treats the independent foreign relations of the people of Cuba as unimpaired, hopes that a consul who had been lawfully commissioned by the President of Cuba may be recognized.)