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

File No. 816.00/192.

Chargé Tennant to the Secretary of State.

No. 364.]

American Legation,
San Salvador, June 30, 1914.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy and translation of a clipping from the Diario de El Salvador, of a report of the Committee on Powers and Excuses of the National Legislative Assembly of Salvador,³ relative to the request of the President of Salvador, don Carlos Melendez, for permission to resign the Presidency of the Republic in order to comply with the Constitution and legally become candidate for the Presidency for the ensuing term of four years.

I have [etc.]

Henry F. Tennant

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3. Not printed.