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

File No. 822.124/283.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , June 26, 1913 .

Americans should not be excluded from work of sanitation, especially after Ecuador invited the Isthmian Canal Commission to make report on the work which Colonel Gorgas made. Use your best efforts to secure for Americans opportunity to obtain contract. Give names of American firms bidding.

Bryan.