File No. 422.11G93/657.
The Chargé d’Affaires of Ecuador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, June 20, 1913.
Sir: Confirming the conferences with your excellency with regard to the appointment of the new Arbiter to decide with the Ecuadorean Arbiter the controversies pending between the Government of Ecuador and the Guayaquil and Quito Railway Company, I have the honor to inform your excellency that my Government has accepted without reservations the appointment of Judge A. L. Miller, and it is perfectly understood that the finding of the American and Ecuadorean Arbiters will be considered by my Government as final.
I avail [etc.]
Note.—On July 1 a conference was held at the Department of State at which the Department, the Government of Ecuador (by its Chargé d’Affaires and counsel), and the Railway Company were [Page 495] all represented. At this conference a memorandum of agreement relating to the scope and procedure of the arbitration was concurred in by all the parties, though not formally signed. The text will be found as the in closure to the Department’s instruction No. 5, of November 14, 1913.