File No. 332/46C.

The Secretary of State to the Guatemalan Chargé.

No. 26.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a note which I addressed to the chargé d’affaires ad interim of Honduras on the 8th instant stating the procedure which to this department appears necessary to make effective the engagements of Article V of the convention signed on the Marblehead on July 20, 1906, and of Article III of the general treaty of amity signed at San Jose on September 24, 1906, with respect to submission to the arbitration of the Presidents of the United States and Mexico of differences between Guatemala, Honduras, and Salvador.

Requesting that you will be so good as to bring these views to the knowledge of your Government, I avail myself of this occasion to offer to you the renewed assurances of my high consideration.

Elihu Root.