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

File No. 422.11G93/555b.

The Acting Secretary of State to Henry L. Janes, American Arbitrator.

Department of State,
Washington , December 14, 1912 .

Sir: In accordance with your personal request, I enclose herewith for your information a copy and paraphrase of telegraphic instructions transmitted to the American Legation at Quito in connection with the arbitration of the claims of the Guayaquil and Quito Railroad and of the Government of Ecuador, and your designation as arbitrator under the terms of the contract.¹

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.

1. Printed in For. Rel. 1912, p. 421.