Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 817.812/102a.

The Secretary of State to the President.

The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President with a view to its transmission to the Senate to receive the advice and consent of that body to its ratification, a Convention¹¹ between the United States and Nicaragua, signed at Washington on August 5, 1914, granting to the United States, in return for a money payment for the benefit of the Republic of Nicaragua, the exclusive proprietary rights necessary and convenient for the construction, operation and maintenance of an interoceanic canal by a Nicaraguan route, the lease for ninety-nine years of Great and Little Corn Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and the right to establish a naval base on the Gulf of Fonseca.

Respectfully submitted,

W. J. Bryan

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Department of State,
Washington , August 8, 1914.

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