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

The ambassador of the United States of America in Rome to the minister of foreign affairs of Italy.

Rome, March 30, 1895.

Your Excellency:

I have the honor to refer to my note of the 1st of March, addressed to your excellency, and to enclose herewith, in confirmation of the information, which I then had the pleasure of transmitting, a copy of the note which I have received from the Department of State, announcing the acceptance by the President of the United States of the joint invitation of the Governments of Italy and Colombia to arbitrate between them in regard to the claims of one Ernest Cerruti.

I have, etc.,

Wayne MacVeagh.