839.00/2605: Telegram
The Commissioner in the Dominican Republic (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 27—1:51 a.m.]
21. I am informed by Admiral Robison that he has requested instructions from the Navy Department as to the wording of the proclamation, referred to in the first article of the plan, to be issued by him announcing that a Provisional Government will be installed and the date upon which said installation will take effect. It is my belief that the Admiral’s proclamation should contain an official announcement of the entire plan of evacuation as already published; that it should further specify the exact date upon which the Provisional Government is to be installed; and in addition, contain an announcement of certain details relating to the installation of the Provisional Government such as the nature of the oath of office to be taken by the members of the Provisional Government and the manner in which such oath of office is to be administered. In order that the Admiral’s proclamation may contain these essential features, with which the Navy Department is necessarily not familiar, I beg to recommend that the Navy Department be requested to instruct Admiral Robison to [Page 60] confer with me in regard to the wording of this proclamation, and that once an agreement has been reached, the approval of the Department of State and the Navy Department to the proposed wording be obtained by cable.