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

Mr. Hitchcock to Mr. Day.

Embassy of the United States,
St. Petersburg , June 15, 1898 .

No. 93.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 79 of June 3, relating to passports. I note the discretion given me in regard to granting passports with much gratification, and beg to express my thanks for the same.

You will have seen in dispatches, subsequent to my No. 60 of May 10, further references to this subject, which are forestalled by the discretionary authority now granted me.

I have, etc.,

Ethan A. Hitchcock.