Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 6775/574.

The Delegates of Costa Rica, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Translation.]

Guatemala, September 16, 1908.

With most respectful greetings, we have the honor to advise Your Excellency that, in great solemnity and amidst demonstrations of immense rejoicing, the President of this Republic this day inaugurated in this capital the International Central American Bureau, of which we are the members, cherishing for our part the firm purpose of furthering the lofty and beneficent aims of the convention concluded at Washington, by which this most important institution was created.

• Ricardo J. Echeverria,
  Delegate of Costa Rica.
• Carlos Gillen,
  Delegate of Salvador.
• José Pinto,
  Delegate of Guatemala.
• Manuel P. Barahona,
  Delegate of Honduras.
• Benjamin F. Zeledon,
  Delegate of Nicaragua.