The Honduranean Minister to the Acting Secretary of State.
Washington, August 8, 1907.
Sir: In compliance with the wish expressed to me on your excellency’s behalf by the minister of Costa Rica I addressed to my Government an inquiry regarding the date and form of the establishment of the constitutional government in Honduras, and have received from the minister of foreign relations a reply as follows:
Tegucigalpa.
Agreed constitution will govern September 15, and elections will be called October. Write you to-morrow. Well here.
Fiallas.
As supplementing the foregoing I inform your excellency that I have received a letter dated from Puerto Cortes, Honduras, on the 29th of July by which I am informed that there was held in the capital of the Republic a meeting of the most prominent men who guide the destinies of the country, and that they agreed on designating Gen. Don Miguel R. Dávila for president and Gen. Don Dionisis Gutierrez for vice-president in the forthcoming constitutional term, and that the constitution of 1894 was with one accord adopted as to the election of the said functionaries and all the other administrative acts. The designation will be accepted by the great majority of the country and will offer no difficulty in practice.
With reference to the two dates mentioned in the cablegram of the minister of foreign relations, I beg to remark to your excellency that the celebration of our political emancipation takes place on the 15th of September, and that October is the month set for elections in the said constitution of 1894.
I trust that, in view of these indications and of the normal and peaceful conditions in Honduras, the American Government will see no objection to recognizing officially the Government of that country.
With assurances, etc.,