File No. 422.11G93/698.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

I informed the President of Ecuador to-day of the probable early departure of Judge Miller for Ecuador, and suggested to him the advisability executing a preliminary agreement between the Ecuadorean Government and the Railway Company, specifically stating the points of disagreement to be submitted to the Board of Arbitration, so that its labors would be greatly expedited. He said that such an agreement would not be necessary, as a memorandum agreement to the same effect had been signed by the Secretary of State at Washington and the Ecuadorean Minister during the past summer. No such paper is in the files of this Legation.2

Hartman.
  1. But see Department’s August 13 to the American Minister.