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

Mr. Cambon to Mr. Day.

Embassy of France in the United States,
Washington , June 24, 1898 .

Mr. Secretary of State: You did me the honor to inform me on the 22d of this month that you had transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury a translation of my note of the 9th instant, touching the interpretation to be given to certain articles mentioned in the commercial arrangements concluded the 28th of May last between France and the United States. You added that in case I should desire to supplement, by verbal observations, the statements which I have communicated to you in writing, you would request your colleague, the Secretary of the Treasury, to confer with such person as I should designate to that end.

Thanking you for your courteous attention, I hasten to apprise you that I have requested my first secretary, Mr. Thiébaut, to hold himself at the disposal of the Secretary of the Treasury for the interview which you are pleased to propose to me.

Be pleased to accept, etc.,

Jules Cambon.