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

Mr. White to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
Berlin , February 20, 1899 .

No. 758.]

Sir: At the close of the recent visit made to me by Baron von Richthofen, referred to in my dispatch No. 757 of this date, he referred to the fact that the minister of the interior, Herr von der Recke, had decided to send commissioners to New York to examine the system of the insurance companies which have so long been asking for such a commission (see dispatch No. 648 of December 8, 1898), but that the Government had decided not to accept the proposal of the companies to pay the expenses therefor, preferring itself to pay the expenses of any commission which it might send.

I am, etc.,

Andrew D. White.