817.00/3992: Telegram
The Chargé in Nicaragua (Dennis) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:25 p.m.]
181. …
At 6 o’clock tonight, October 30, 6 p.m., in accordance with article 106 of the Constitution, Chamorro deposited Presidency in the second designate of Congress, Senator Uriza, the first designate32 being absent in the United States. Uriza has informed me he will convoke immediately Congress in extraordinary session. First session should be held in eight or ten days.
Uriza, Cuadra Pasos, Alfonso Estrada and Martin Benard inform me that after a consultation with Conservative leaders and Congressmen, majority of whom are already in Managua, the Conservative Party proposes to carry out following program: (1) Reinstate excluded members of Solorzano Congress; (2) secure designation by said Congress of Adolfo Diaz as designate to receive the Presidency from Uriza, all to be accomplished within 15 days if possible. Some doubt is expressed in certain quarters as to the possibility of the election of Diaz by such a Congress due to refusal of some Conservatives to vote for him as designate. Cuadra Pasos tells me he believes however Diaz will be able to muster a majority even with reinstatement of the expelled members.
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- Vicente Rappaccioli.↩