Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 422.11 G93/454.]

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

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Quito, April 21, 1912.

General Plaza believes the railway’s revolution bills are an imposition even if technically correct, but says that if their adjustment is made on a basis of average earnings of last six months of last year, plus fifty per cent, plus 65,000 sucres damages, he will use his utmost efforts to induce the Government to pay 100,000 sucres before April 25, and 50,000 more during May, and to approve all other accounts passed by Minister of Interior.

Bingham.