Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III

Mr. Seward to Mr. Clay

No 72.]

Department of State, Washington, June 17, 1864.

Sir: I transmit, for your information, three printed copies of a correspondence between the honorable Z. Chandler, chairman of the Committee on Commerce of the Senate, and this department, relative to the intercontinental telegraph connecting the eastern and western hemispheres, by way of Behring’s straits, proposed by Perry McDonough Collins, esq.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Cassius M. Clay, Esq., &c., &c., &c.