Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 3010/4.

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ecuadorean Minister.

Department of State,
Washington, January 10, 1907.

No. 20.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 4th instant, by which you communicate to the department the gratifying intelligence that Gen. Eloy Alfaro was inaugurated as constitutional President of Ecuador on the 1st of the same month, and have read with pleasure your assurance that the government of General Alfaro will continue to cultivate the cordial relations now existing with the United States.

The American minister at Quito was on the 4th instant instructed by telegraph to convey to General Alfaro the President’s congratulations and good wishes.

Accept, etc.,

Robert Bacon.