File No. 839.00/886.
The Minister of the Dominican Republic to the Secretary of State.
Washington, September 20, 1913.
Mr. Secretary: In connection with the cablegram that you received yesterday from the Honorable James W. Sullivan, which you had the kindness to show me today at the Department, in which he reports that the leaders of the revolution in Puerto Plata agree to suspend offensive operations and to use none but constitutional methods, etc., on condition that the situation should remain in statu quo, etc., I venture to draw your attention to the fact that the statu quo implies that the ports of Sánchez. Samaná and Puerto Plata will continue closed and blockaded until a final solution shall have been reached or the Government of President Bordas shall decide otherwise, since the blockade was decreed at an earlier date and has not been rescinded by the Constitutional Government of the Republic, which ordered it.
I avail [etc.]