Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress, December 4, 1893

Mr. Foster to Mr. Durham.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington , January 17, 1893 .

Mr. Foster states that the present condition of the negotiations does not justify the use of force, instructs Mr. Durham to lay the President’s instruction, telegraphed to him on this day, before the Haitian Government, and to inform the Department by telegram if the latter makes no offer of indemnity.