Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1892

Mr. Phelps to Mr. Foster.

Legation of the United States,
Berlin, September 22, 1892. (Received October 6.)

No. 487.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s instruction No. 465, of the 5th instant.

I presume that soon after this instruction was sent the Department received my dispatch of the 28th of August, No. 477. It will be seen from the note of the foreign office which I inclosed in it that the foreign office preferred not to discuss the subject in question with me, and said it would instruct its chargé d’affaires to give a detailed answer in Washington, where all negotiations up to this time have been carried on.

I have, etc.,

Wm. Walter Phelps.