No. 320. 2be in possession of the same by about the time the Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs could have the copy sent to Senator Borah by President Meléndez translated, have the honor to transmit herewith a copy and translation of the MEMORANDUM in question, as well as two copies of the Political Constitution of the United States of Central America, subscribed at Managua on the 27th of August, 1898, to which President Meléndez has made reference in the enclosed Memorandum.
Lest the Department give undue weight to the observations which President Meléndez has made in his Memorandum whereby he has endeavored to make it appear, or leave the impression that great progress has been made for the formation of a Central American Union, wish to state that doubt that any progress whatever has been made by any of the other Central American Republics for the realization of such a Union.
It is only here, in Salvador, that this question is being agitated, or advocated, and by demagogues not by the masses, who never think, or dream of a Central American Union, although it might not be unnatural if Salvador should want it, because of its numerous population, 1, 100, 000 souls enclosed in an area of something like 7, 000 square miles, which scarcely gives the people elbow room.
On page of my unnumbered de spatch dated March 17th, the 1913, marked CONFIDENTIAL, reported to the Department substance of a letter written by President Jiménez, of Costa Rica, to Mr. Acosta, the Minister of that country to Salvador, saying,