[Memorandum.]
Washington, June 26, 1900.
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the French ambassador, and with reference to the memorandum left at the Department of State by the chargé d’affaires ad interim of France on December 26, 1899, expressing the wish of the French Government that the claims of its citizens sufferers in Samoa should be included in the arbitration provided for by the convention concluded November 7, 1899, between the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, has the honor to inclose for the information of the French ambassador a copy of a memorandum1 addressed to the British ambassador on the 25th instant, stating that this proposition is acceptable to the Government of the United States provided it shall be agreeable to the Governments of Great Britain and Germany.