Mr. Hay to Mr. Tower.
Washington , January 30, 1901.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 381, of the 10th instant, reporting the case of Mr. Giovanni J. Margolin, an Austrian by birth, Jewish faith, who emigrated to the United States in 1895, was naturalized October 2, 1900, then went to Europe, secured a passport dated November 1, 1900, at the United States embassy in Berlin, entered Russia with a permission, as a Hebrew, to stay three months, and who now asks the good offices of this Government, in order to secure the extension of that permission on the part of the Russian Government to the full term of the passport, or indefinitely.
[Page 451]The Department approves your view of the case. More satisfactory evidence should be forthcoming than is now submitted of Mr. Margolin’s actual conservation of his acquired citizenship before the intervention of this Government should be exercised to procure for him the continued privilege of residence in Russia for which he applies.
I am, etc.,