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

File No. 838.51/421.

The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Davis.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 27, 1915.

In view of contents of your September 26, the gourdes may be made immediately available to the Haitian Government provided that some such arrangement as that proposed by Admiral Caperton in his telegram of September 26 be adopted, which will be to the satisfaction of the Bank and secure prompt ratification of the treaty.

The Department feels confident that shortly after ratification of the treaty and the conclusion of a modus vivendi, funds will be forthcoming to provide for every legitimate necessity of the Haitian Government.

Polk.