Office of the Historian

File No. 839.00/1003.

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American Legation,
Santo Domingo, December 15, 1913.

The delegates and agents were given courteous unofficial audience by the President and exchanged calls with the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. The effect of their presence has been, I think, most salutary and has doubtless prevented Government resort to the coercive measures which I know to have been arranged. The first day’s polling was apparently conducted with order and decorum except for a few relatively unimportant outbreaks.

Sullivan.