Embassy
of the United States,
Berlin, August 5, 1896.
(Received Aug. 18.)
No. 101.]
[Inclosure in No. 301.]
Mr. Uhl to
Baron von
Rotenhan.
Embassy of the United States of America,
Berlin, August 5, 1896.
The undersigned, ambassador, etc., of the United States of America,
acting under instructions from his Government, has the honor to
again [Page 196] invite the attention
of his excellency Baron von Rotenhan, acting secretary of state for
foreign affairs, to the applications of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company and the New York Life Insurance Company, for permission to
resume business in Prussia, interrupted in the year 1895, and which
applications have been pending upon reexamination in the Prussian
ministry of the interior and remained undetermined for many months,
the delay in granting which is beginning to operate to the
embarrassment of these companies in the conduct of their business in
other German States, and other European countries.
The undersigned, as instructed by his Government, begs to express the
hope that it may be found consistent by the Prussian ministry of the
interior at an early day to reach a conclusion granting the prayer
of the applicants, that thereby the embargo now existing upon their
business in Prussia, to their serious disadvantage, may be
lifted.
With the well-grounded belief that the requests of these applying
American companies for restoration to the rights and privileges
formerly accorded them, and by virtue of which they undertook
business and made large investments in Prussia, will not be long
withheld, and that his excellency will soon be enabled to put the
undersigned in the way of informing his Government of the reply
which it confidently awaits, the undersigned avails himself,
etc.,
