Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Townsend to Mr. Hay .

Legation of the United States,
Brussels , March 20, 1900 .

No. 47.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of No. 37, dated March 8, 1900, transmitting copy of Department’s dispatch to Owen L. W. Smith, United States minister at Monrovia. In conformity with instructions I have informed the minister for foreign affairs that the President transmitted the convention of June 8, 1899, to the Senate, but that up to 8th instant that high body had not given its advice and consent to the adhesion of the United States thereto, and that without this the United States could not become an adhering party.

I have, etc.,

Lawrence Townsend.