Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 9, 1891

Mr. Blaine to Mr. Denby .

Department of State,
Washington , February 14, 1891 .

No. 590.]

Sir: I have received your No. 1212, of December 13 last, and a copy of the latest note of the yamén in the McCaslin case, which you inclose, declining to open up the judgment at Ningpo.

Your suggestion that the case will have to be reserved for the present is approved. It might be well for you, however, to reply to the yamén’s note, in order that we may not seem to have acquiesced in it, and that the issue may be kept distinct and our rights reserved.

I am, etc.,

James G. Blaine.