File No. 815.51/340.
The Vice President of the Whitney-Central National Bank of New Orleans to the Solicitor for the Department of State.
Dear Sir: I telegraphed you on Saturday last, as follows: [see ante, telegram of June 8] which I now confirm, and to which I am still without reply.
I have therefore wired to Mr. Zemurray to call on you with a view of ascertaining if the Department of State would assume the same attitude toward the $500,000 of bonds of the Republic of Honduras as it would have assumed if the Secretary of State had been made the ultimate umpire in any controversy which might arise?
It appears to me as if the selection of the Chief Justice of the United States rather adds strength than otherwise; and I would particularly like to know now what kind of a letter we might expect from the Department with the Chief Justice as umpire, so I may be able to close the matter up by cable with Honduras and proceed to have the bonds engraved.
Hoping to be favored with an early reply, I am [etc.]