Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Mr. Anderson to Mr. Olney.

Embassy of the United States,
Rome , August 19, 1896 . (Received Sept. 8.)

No. 200.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge a cipher telegram received to-day on the subject of a reported lynching of Italians in Louisiana, and to append to this dispatch a translation of the same.

I beg to add that I at once communicated with the foreign office on the subject, as instructed.

I have, etc.,

Larz Anderson.