Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress

[Telegram per cable.]

Mr. Johnson to Mr. Seward

Legation of the United States, London, December 18, 1868.

Fourth, fifth, and sixth articles omitted. In place: If commissioners, or two of them, be unable to decide any claim, and think, from its nature, it should be left to arbitration of foreign state, they so to report to their respective governments, who shall, within six months, agree upon some sovereign or head of a friendly state.

Other amendments agreed to. Will the one above be approved? Answer.

REVERDY JOHNSON.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.