Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1897

Mr. Barrett to Mr. Olney.

[Telegram.]

Bangkok, January 11, 1897.

Siam holds arbitrator first decides whether action attaching mortgaged timber as only means recovering advances was justified by Cheek’s breaches contract; hence whether Cheek entitled in principle claim any damages; then only possible decide whether and what amount balance all accounts between Siam Cheek favor former. Latter protests your expression appropriation and injurious action. The proposal prejudicial Cheek particularly “only means.”

Barrett.