Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 822.124/212.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Quito, June 29, 1912.

The Coignet contract expires tomorrow and the Government of Ecuador desires to begin negotiations with the United States in regard to the sanitation of Guayaquil. The Minister for Foreign Affairs would like a reply to his memorandum of May 6.

Bingham.