Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1881

No. 183.
Mr. Blaine to Mr. Angell.

Department of State,
Washington, October 28, 1881.

No. 128.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 204, of August 28 last, reporting the decision of the Chinese Government in the matter of the Yang-tse junk regulations, and to say that, in view of all the facts now before it, the Department is not supposed to question the justice of the conclusion reached by that government.

I am, &c.,

JAMES G. BLAINE.