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

Mr. Everett to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Guatemala, October 8, 1900.

(Mr. Everett acknowledges Mr. Hay’s telegram of the 6th instant, and states that it did not specify gold or currency; that the Honduran Government offers immediate payment of $5,000 currency, and that he defers reply to the offer pending instructions from the Department.)