Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, Part I

Mr. Olney to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington, October 30, 1895.

No. 234.]

Excellency: Adverting to the Department’s note of the 26th instant, concerning the testimony of Capt. C. L. Hooper and Lieut. F. S. Van Boskerck, jr., of the revenue steamer Rush, which seized the E. B. Marvin, I have now the honor to apprise you of the receipt of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, of the 28th instant, saying that, in view of the opinion expressed by the United States district attorney at San Francisco, who had conferred with Captain Hooper on the subject that his testimony in the Marvin case was unnecessary, the orders of that officer have been countermanded.

I have, etc.,

Richard Olney

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