838.51/992: Telegram
The Minister in Haiti (Bailly-Blanchard) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 12—11 a.m.]
73. Department’s 88, October 8, noon. Up to receipt of your message this morning the President had not laid business before Council of State, a delay of three weeks since definite assurance given to put program through. No promise of further payment of salary beyond August was directed until program fulfilled when order of suspension [Page 811] would be entirely withdrawn. This was thoroughly understood by the President. Since receipt of your cable a copy, not official, of the President’s message to the Council of State sent this day has been obtained and is forwarded in the Navy cipher to save time.42 This is the first public act towards taking the steps indicated in Department’s note of August 27th, 1920,43 to the Haitian Chargé d’Affaires. Following the Department’s instructions in its number 88, I have accordingly directed the Financial Adviser to authorize the immediate payment of salaries for September. The minor points of the three laws referred to in paragraph 4 of my 67, September 20, 5 p.m. were to be communicated by the President, I still await their receipt.