File No. 3010/4.

The Ecuadorean Minister to the Secretary of State .

[Translation.]

Mr. Secretary: Agreeably to our conference of yesterday, I take pleasure in advising you that I have received a cablegram from the most excellent minister of foreign relations of Ecuador by which I am informed that the inauguration of the most excellent Gen. Don Eloy Alfaro as constitutional President of the Republic took place on the 1st instant.

As I had the pleasure of telling your excellency the Government presided over by the most excellent General Alfaro will continue, as during the first administration of that mandatory, to give evidence of its earnest efforts toward drawing close the most cordial political and commercial relations with the United States of America.

Be pleased, etc.,

L. F. Carbo.