817.041/3: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:05 p.m.]
184. The restored Supreme Court has come to the conclusion that the best way to legalize the acts of the de facto court (about 100 altogether) is to maintain all decisions except some 10 in all which were protested by parties interested at the time decisions were rendered.
[Page 391]They have decided also to reinstate the magistrates of the courts of appeals at Leon, Granada and Bluefields who were expelled by de facto Congress under orders of Chamorro. Without precedent for solution of this difficulty, Thomas Cooley’s Constitutional Limitations, 7th edition, pages 897 and 898, have been held most nearly applicable. Has the Department any views to communicate?