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

Mr. Sherman to Sir Julian Pauncefote.

Department of State,
Washington , April 5, 1898 .

No. 965.]

Excellency: I have the honor to state that the Treasury Department contemplates sending four revenue cutters from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic coast. Two of the vessels are to be armed revenue cutters. The other two are vessels under construction, and the builders will not deliver them to the United States until they reach the sea.

I have therefore the honor respectfully to request that you will kindly obtain from the Canadian government by telegraph permission for these vessels to go through the canals that are under the control of the Dominion of Canada.

I have, etc.,

John Sherman.