Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 817.51/571b.

The Secretary of State to Brown Brothers and Company.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 20, 1913.

Kindly telegraph the amount now owed you by Nicaragua, and send by mail the terms and conditions on which you would increase your loan for about one year to between $2,000,000 and $2,500,000; also state whether you would consider your security on the latter amount ample without option on the railroad.

W. J. Bryan.