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The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:45 p.m.]
412. Both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies have now provisionally accepted the new members elected on November 4. In the Senate Liberal officers were elected, with Paniagua Prado as President, and several of the new Senators have already been sworn in, although the credentials will not finally be passed on until later. In the Chamber of Deputies the credentials of the new members were also approved “as to form,” which constitutes an acceptance of the election and will permit the new Deputies to take their seats pending final approval in each case. In the committee appointed to examine the credentials, the majority consisting of two Chamorro Deputies reported that the credentials were incorrect but advised their acceptance in order to “avert greater evils than those from which the political existence of the Republic now suffers.” Cruz Hurtado, a Cuadra Pasista, submitted a minority report stating that the elections had been legal.
It would appear from the above that Congress will be organized on the basis of the outcome of the election and that there will be no difficulty about the proclamation of the results of the Presidential elections. There may, nevertheless, be efforts to unseat certain Liberal Deputies when the final examination of credentials takes place.