File No. 839.00/884.
The American Minister to the Secretary of State.
We have conferred with the revolutionary leaders and induced them to abandon physical force and resort to constitutional methods of righting grievances on the following promise and guaranty: No reprisals by the Bordas Government; matters to remain in statu quo with Céspedes as Governor of Puerto Plata; an honest ballot at a fair election in the near future. I start immediately for Santo Domingo to secure the consent of the Dominican Government to this solution, and a courier is leaving Puerto Plata to communicate with the commanding officers in the field at Santiago; the Des Moines goes to Monte Cristi to reach Arias.