Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 417.00/57.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams—Paraphrase.]

Managua, July 29, 1911.

I transmit herewith, in pursuance of instructions in your June 26, amendatory decree¹ worded as President Diaz is willing to approve it. The department’s proposed modification of article 4 has been embodied in amendment to article 2, in order to facilitate passage in the assembly.

Gunther.

1. As the draft of the amendatory decree given in this telegram is identical with the decree enacted on Oct. 14, the text is here omitted and printed below as the inclosure to Mr. Gunther’s No. 137 of Oct. 31.