Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 612.1123/67.

Special Agent Silliman to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

Vera Cruz, March 9, 1915.

Department’s March 8. Secretary of the Treasury thinks favorably of a plan which will, first, guarantee to the Carranza Government the export duty; second, guarantee that value of sisal would not be paid to shippers but might be held for their account until present differences are settled; third, a guaranty of no importation. Does Department consider the proposition practicable?

Silliman.