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

Mr. Peirce to Mr. Hay.

Embassy of the United States,
St. Petersburg, October 27, 1899.

No. 133.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram¹ of the 26th instant, a copy of which I append upon the overleaf.

Acting upon the instructions therein contained, I have requested a further interview with Professor de Martens for the purpose of urging upon him the wishes of our Government that the phrase “and the spirit of international agreements bearing upon the subject” be omitted from the protocol of the arbitration of the claims of American citizens arising out of seizures of American vessels.

I have, etc.,

Herbert H. D. Peirce.

1. Printed ante.