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

No. 26.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. Kasson.

[Telegram.]

Washington, February 24, 1881.

See minister foreign affairs and protest firmly against proposed decree. Certainly, it should not operate except after a due interval of notice and should not condemn except for actual disease. Without these qualifications the measure would be regarded as oppressive and intolerable.

EVARTS.