Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1901

Mr. Hay to Señor Carbo.

Department of State,
Washington, September 20, 1901.

No. 31.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 12th instant embodying the text of a telegram received by you from the President of Ecuador, translation of which reads as follows:

International policy of present Government, strict neutrality. Frontiers mutually and perfectly respected; complete peace within and without Republic. Deny all news to the contrary.

This information has been received with much pleasure by the Government of the United States, which naturally feels a lively solicitude that good will and harmony shall prevail among American States.

Accept, etc.,

John Hay.