File No. 839.00/998.
The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Dominican Republic.
Washington, December 9, 1913.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 8th instant in which, embodying by way of confirmation the text of your memorandum of December 6th regarding the reported announcement that a commission appointed by the Government of the United States would go to the Dominican Republic to supervise elections for magistrates and deputies, you add additional statements why your Government is constrained to protest against such a step.
At the time of the writing of your note of December 8th you could not have received my communication to you of the same day’s date with its enclosed copy of a telegram which by the President’s direction I had despatched to the American Minister at Santo Domingo on the preceding day.
I feel confident that the explanation made in those two papers will remove from the mind of President Bordas any misconception he may have formed from the misleading newspaper reports and [Page 446] will make it clear to him that there is no foundation whatever for the protest which these erroneous reports have induced him to make.
Accept [etc.]