838.51/981: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Haiti (Bailly-Blanchard)

88. Admiral Knapp’s telegram 1850.

The Department regrets exceedingly to learn that suspension of salaries of members of the Government still continues. The Department does not consider that Article 5, of the Treaty, in view of the fact that the revenues collected by the General Receiver are now sufficient to meet all expenses, can be construed as implying that this Government has the right to withhold the current expenses of the Haitian Government, It is believed that no useful purpose will be accomplished by the suspension of salaries and that September salaries should be paid immediately if they have been withheld.

Cable immediately the minor points still to be agreed upon referred to in Paragraph 4 of your No. 67, September 20, 5 p.m.41 If agreement upon these points has been reached and required program has been formally accepted by the President, you may inquire of the President the reason for the delay in the submission of this program to the Council of State by executive message. You may further inform him that the delay in the sending of this message is causing grave anxiety to this Government since it had been led to believe that the Haitian Government was desirous of manifesting its intention to cooperate once more cordially with the United States in the carrying out of the objects of the Treaty. You may say further that this Government has given the measures embodied in this program its most careful consideration and that it believes that the program suggested is essential for the best interests of the Haitian Republic.

Davis
  1. Ante, p. 800.