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, November 3, 1899.

If there is any doubt of the American attitude as to partition of Samoa, you may say to Lord Salisbury that we are favorable to it, provided that satisfactory terms can be made, and that we shall be content with that portion of the islands east of the one hundred and seventy-first meridian.

Hay.