Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 711.38/83

The Minister of Haiti to the Secretary of State

[Translation]

Legation of Haiti,
Washington, June 12, 1916.

Mr. Secretary of State: I have the honor to inform your excellency that the Haitian Commission sent to Washington as early as December last to insure the application of the Convention of September 16, 1915, has been instructed to return to Haiti.

My Government in informing me of this decision forced by necessity was pleased to tell me that it would soon send me special powers to settle the matter of the Compagnie Nationale des Chemins de Fer d’Haiti (Railways) and other questions.

Be pleased [etc.]

Solon Ménos