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

Mr. Day to Baron Fava.

Washington, June 6, 1898.

No. 341.]

Excellency: Referring to the Department’s note No. 314, of March 31 last, I have the honor to inform you that after the oral explanations made by you in our interviews, and upon consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, it is understood that the Italian immigration bureau will be allowed to remain at Ellis Island upon the same conditions as stated in the letter addressed to your excellency by the Treasury Department of June 13, 1894.

Accept, etc.,

William R. Day.