Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Conger to Mr. Day.

[Telegram.]

Legation of the United States,
Pelting, China, September 23, 1898.

Day, Washington:

Emperor has been compelled to decree the Empress Dowager coregent. She assumes full power to-day.

Conger.