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

Mr. Foster to Mr. Shannon.

Department of State,
Washington, July 27, 1892.

No. 81.]

Sir: I have received your No. 128, of the 30th ultimo, communicating a note of May 30, 1892, whereby the Government of Salvador announces that it will arrest the operations of the treaty of amity, commerce, and consular privileges of 1870 on the 30th May next (1893).

You will invite the suggestion by Salvador of the more satisfactory terms on which the negotiation of a new treaty is proposed.

I am, etc.,

John W. Foster.