Mr. Foster to Mr. Egan.

[Telegram.]

Mr. Foster informs Mr. Egan that a board of three members, not two and an umpire, is what is desired, and directs him to suggest, in view of the impossibility for the Chief Justice to accept to be third member of the tribunal, that the choice be made by mutual consent of the two governments, the president of Switzerland to name the third arbitrator in case no agreement can be reached within a certain specified period after exchange of ratifications.