Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 31.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Tree.

[Extract.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 26, 1888.

No. 96.]

Sir: Your dispatch (No. 289) of the 6th instant, reporting your action under my instruction (No. 90) of the 7th ultimo relative to the alleged wrongs inflicted on the American Baptist Missionary Union by Mr. Henry M. Stanley and the Congo State authorities, has been received.

Your report of the restitution of the steamer and indemnification of the owners has been read with satisfaction.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.