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

No. 649.
Mr. Hay to Mr. Farman.

Department of State,
Washington, July 20, 1880.

No. 174.]

Sir: Since the Department’s instruction to you, No. 170, of the 28th ultimo, in regard to the desired adhesion of the United States to the commission of liquidation was written, your dispatch No. 412, of June 22d, and your later telegram, undated, but reaching here on the 13th instant, have been received and considered.

The explanations you give as to the working of the commission and its plans for the liquidation of the debt, joined to the insistance with which the Government of the Khedive asks the adhesion of this government to the scheme, led the Department to change its decision abandoning the attitude of strict reserve maintained in the instructions sent to you on the 28th ultimo, and in compliance with the Egyptian minister’s request that you should be instructed in the premises by telegraph, the following dispatch was sent to you on the 17th instant:

Give the adhesion if Egyptian Government regards it material to the scheme.

EVARTS.

I am, &c.,

JOHN HAY,
Acting Secretary.