Vice Consul Caldera to the Secretary of State.
Managua, December 26, 1909.
Sir: I have the honor to report that on the 21st instant the new President, Dr. Jose Madriz, unanimously designated by Zelaya’s Congress, was inaugurated.
After the ceremony at the Campo de Marte, the President’s residence and office, Gen. Zelaya moved to his recently built home, called “The House No. 1,” and by night Dr. Madriz decided to move from the hotel to the Campo de Marte.
On the 23d instant the Mexican minister proceeded to Corinto, and soon after his arrival at the port it was formally announced that the ex-President would leave that night for Corinto. A train was pre-
Eared and even his most intimate friends were made to believe that he was going by train, and so they went to the station to see him off. When tired of waiting they were surprised to see that the train started off alone, and only then noticed that the only little steamer on Lake Managua had noiselessly pulled off the wharf.
The next day it was made public that he had gone by lake steamer to Momotombo and from there to Corinto, where he quietly went on board of the Mexican gunboat General Guerrero.
The new President has now called the leaders from Granada and is trying to come to terms, starting by the appointment of a peace commission to go to Bluefields to treat with the revolutionists.
I have, etc.,