[Enclosure—Translation]
Copy of Plan Which Accompanied Agreement of
October 3, 1932
Pacification. To send immediately to General
Sandino a representative
of each party and one of the Group to negotiate national peace.
Agreement between the two parties to work together to solve the
problem of national pacification.
Judicial Power. The Supreme Court of Justice
will be made up of a majority of Magistrates of the party which
obtains the larger number of votes in the elections of Supreme
Authorities, and the remainder, of Magistrates of the minority
party. The Courts of Appeals shall be made up as follows: a majority
of Liberal Magistrates in the Courts of León and Bluefields, and a
majority of Conservative Magistrates in the Courts of Grenada and
Matagalpa. The District Judges shall be named in the same
proportion.
Public Instruction. It is agreed that the
profession of teacher is not political and consequently is not
subordinate to partisan considerations: therefore, teachers with
diplomas should be engaged in the first place, and lacking such,
teachers without diplomas but whose competence is recognized.
Economic Control. That the Supreme Tribunal
of Accounts should be made up, one half, of accountants of the
minority party; and that in the reform of the Constitution provision
be included that these appointments should be made by Congress.
Executive Power. To organize the Cabinet
under the control of the two parties in the portfolios of Foreign
Relations and Finance. Each one of the two parties will have a
member in each one of those Ministries, and they, with the
respective Minister, will form a Council.
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Consular and Diplomatic Career. Equitable
distribution of these functions among citizens able to assist the
progress of the country.
Payment of Pensions. Non-preferential payment
of pensions.
Constitutional Reform. To agree to request
the next Congress to decree the reform of the Constitution for the
purpose of including in it the representation of minorities and all
those points which conciliate the public acts of Nicaraguans and
harmonize in a national way the functions of Government.
Important Administrative Point. Protection of
workmen, endeavoring to see that they will not be without work,
attending to their just claims, assisting the technical progress of
their trades and supporting their social organization.
Propaganda Newspapers. To extend an effective
influence in order that the respective propaganda newspapers set
forth their points of view on the basis of the merits of the ideas
and purposes of the parties, and not by discrediting and defaming
their opponents. In any case, it is necessary that comparisons be
made in terms which conform to public interest and decorum and the
necessary democratic conviviality of the Nicaraguans.
Managua, September 29,
1932.