Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,

Port au Prince, May 27, 1902.

(Mr. Powell reports the establishment of a Provisional Government, with Canal as President, Nord as secretary of war, St. Fort Colin as secretary of the interior, Jérémie as secretary for foreign relations, Cesarions as secretary of agriculture, Dennery as secretary of finance, and Lalanne as secretary of justice, and that affairs are rather better.)