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 Mr. Toru Hoshi.

Department of State,
Washington, May 26, 1898.

No. 89.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d instant, informing me that the Imperial Japanese Diet has passed a bill repealing the act of April 22, 1897, granting a bounty to exporters of raw silk, and adding that you have no doubt that the bill will receive the Emperor’s sanction.

Thanking you for the information, I beg to renew, etc.,

William R. Day.