Office of the Historian

Mr. Townsend to Mr. Hay.

Legation of the United States,
Brussels, December 22, 1900.
No. 75.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, at 9 p.m. yesterday, of Department cablegram1 dated December 21.

To which I this day replied.1

The minister of foreign affairs, upon whom I called early this morning, [Page 39] informed me that it was not too late for the United States to adhere to the convention of June 8, 1899, regulating the importation of spirituous liquors into certain regions of Africa; as two of the adhering powers had not yet signified their intentions, it had been decided that the period for collecting the adhesions should be prolonged. He expressed his gratification that our Senate had given its consent to the adhering of the United States to said convention.

I have, etc.,

Lawrence Townsend.
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