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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Choate.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 14, 1899.

Agreement for Samoan commission reached on basis of Lord Salisbury’s recent identical telegrams to British ambassadors in Washington and Berlin. To be completed by exchange of notes at London. You will at once arrange with Lord Salisbury and address him a formal note accepting on behalf of the Government of the United States the joint agreement in the words of Lord Salisbury’s telegrams.

Hay.