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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Hunter.

Department of State,
Washington , October 6, 1900 .

No. 280.]

Sir: Upon the receipt of No. 410, of July 27 last, in relation to the Pears case, the Department called the attention of the members of the Pears family to the letter purporting to be signed by Benjamin B. Pears, Walter W. Pears by B. B. Pears, and Harry P. Pears by D. B. Cooper, a copy of which you inclosed, and which requested the Department to suspend action for the collection of an indemnity for the death of Frank Pears, and inquired of them whether it was their desire to have the claim abandoned.

The Department is now in receipt of letters, the originals of which I send herewith, from all the members of the family, which effectually dispose of the contention that they have renounced the claim.

I accordingly telegraphed¹ you to-day as follows:

I am, etc.,

John Hay.

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