File No. 711.38/56a.
The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington, November 13, 1915.
My dear Mr. Secretary: We have been advised that the Haitian Republic proposes at an early date to send to Washington a commission authorized to deal definitely with the financial situation in that country and to arrange the details of the operation of the treaty which has been ratified by the Haitian Senate and to compose the differences between the Government and the Bank, and the Government and the Haitian Railway; and also to negotiate a loan and decide upon a plan for the readjustment and rehabilitation of Haitian finances.
In view of the technical character of the subjects which are to be dealt with by this commission I would be very much obliged if you would designate some prominent official of your Department who could be consulted upon these subjects prior to the arrival of the commission, and also during its conferences here.
With [etc.]