Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1899

Mr. Powell to Mr. Hay.

Legation of the United States,
Port au Prince, Haiti, December 15, 1899.

No. 171.]

Sir: In reply to the cablegram received to-day I do not understand what the Department requests. I forwarded in dispatch No. 166, of December 5, 1899, all the information that was in my possession concerning the Ozama Bridge award. I am awaiting instructions from the Department in reference to it, and what steps I shall take in the recognition of the present Government.

Up to the present time I have received no information from that Government of its existence, nor has either of my colleagues here. I do not care to assume this responsibility without full instructions from the Department.

I remain, etc.,

W. F. Powell.