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

Mr. Hill to Mr. Buck.

Department of State,
Washington , September 5, 1900 .

No. 309.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 453, of July 19 last, reporting that the Japanese Government has expressed its desire to drop the question of levying a tax on the salaries and pay of the officers and enlisted men at the United States naval hospital at Yokohama.

In a letter of the 28th ultimo the Acting Secretary of the Navy expresses his concurrence in the Department’s suggestion that the incident be considered as satisfactorily closed.

I am, etc.,

David J, Hill, Acting Secretary.