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

Mr. Conger to Mr. Foster.

Legation of the United States,
Petropolis , August 17, 1892 . (Received September 14.)

No. 301.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch, No. 164, of July 13 ultimo, setting forth the reasons why permission was not granted by the United States Government to the Compagnie Française du Telegraph de Paris à New York to land a cable on our shores from Puerto Plata. Santo Domingo, and authorizing me to communicate these views to the Brazilian minister of foreign affairs in such manner as I deemed most expedient.

In accordance therewith I have this day transmitted a copy of your dispatch to the minister of foreign affairs, accompanying the same with a note of my own.

I have, etc.,

E. H. Conger.