File No. 812.00/10283.

The American Minister to Panama to the Secretary of State.

No. 39.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department that I am on this day in receipt of a note from Dr. Belisario Porras, President of the Republic of Panama, in which he makes the following statement:

“The views of President Wilson in regard to the constitutional governments in the continent have been applauded by the thinking people of Latin America. I believe your President to be in the right path and there he will find me his strong admirer.”

I have [etc.]

Wm. Jennings Price.