Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 60.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. Neyt.

Department of State,
Washington, September 8, 1880.

Sir; I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d July last, and to say in reply that in the absence of any special action by Congress providing for an appointment of a delegate to represent the United States at the international congress of commerce and industry to be convened this month at Brussels, an instruction has been sent to the minister of the United States at that capital enabling either himself or the consul of the United States at Brussels (and in a contingency both these officers) to act for this country at that congress in a proper representative capacity.

Accept, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS.