Enclosure ex with despatch No. of Sept. 30, 1913.
TranslationManagua, Sept. 25, 1913Minister for Foreign Affairs, San Salvador.
My government is in receipt of information to the effect that the Government of your Excellency has addressed an invitation to the governments of Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras to send delegates to a conference in that capital with the exclusivo object of treating of matters relative to the policy of Nicaragua.
In doubt as to the truth of an advice so strange, and before addrossing myself to the other governments of Central America in terms appropriate to the case, pray your Excellency with instructions from the prosident to please be good onough to say whether there is any foundation to the information referred to, since it is inexplicable that Salvador should call together a conference in which it is the intention to air questions of Nicaragua that are of a privato nature, the discussion of which this republic could not permit by any nation, although it had been invited, without deoming that its rights as an autonomous and sovereign people had been infringed.
Please to accopt, Excellency, the protestations of my high consideration. Signed) Diego ChamorroDeposited at the Presidential Mansion of San Salvador. Sept. 26, 1913.
Received in Managua the same day.
To his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affaors.
It is with aspecial ploasure that has ten to answer the important telegraphic message of your Excellency of yesterday, manifesting to you that it is true that my Government has suggested to the other governments of Central America the idea of celebrating a Central American conference with the object of discussing the matters which so profoundly affect the interests of the five states, and especially the vital interests of Honduras ang Salvador, with reference to the pending negotiations between your Exoeliency government and that of the United States; and in consequence of the initiative taken and cherishing the hope that these matters will be dealt with in appropriate form, and that the other governments will offer to your Excellency government their fraternal cooperation in the most courteous sort of a way and with absolute respect for the autonomy of Nicaragua, President Melendez has addressed to the other countries of Central America directed to their respective Presidents, the following invitation. In view of the result of my procedure with reference to the projected reunion of the plenipotentiaries in this capital in order to treat of the matters of which your Excellency already has knowledge and desireous that the initiative of this government and the noble and patriotic acceptanoe, which has been in principle welcomed by the other republics, will not fail of success, it has appeared fitting to submit to the enlightened judgment of your Excellency the considerations which lay before below, and which in my opinion will conciliate the divergent opinions. To judge from that which has lately been published relative to the present situation in Nicaragua, the foundamental object which that republic would seem to be seeking in its negotiations with the United States consists chiefly in guaranteeing order and assurung peace in that republic and in procuring Pinanoial means for thedevelopment of its richesand the improvement of its economic and financial situation.
my government believes that both ends may be attained without the necessity of appealing any foreign element whatever through the sole means of an efficacious concourse of the five isthmian governments. Besides the means stipulated in the existing treaties, others more effective and adequate could be evolved looking to a cooperative aid in the work of assuring peace and order in Nicaragua; and, touching the adquisition of financial