Foreign Relations of the United States, 1901, Appendix, Affairs in China, Report of William W. Rockhill, Late Commissioner to China, with Accompanying Documents

Mr. Hay to Mr. Conger.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Washington, January 3, 1901.

(Mr. Hay states that the suggestion contained in Mr. Conger’s telegram of the 1st instant had been under consideration here for some time. That, China having yielded to joint demands, it is now timely to act upon the suggestion which it is thought may already have been the occasion of a comparison of views among Mr. Conger’s colleagues.

The President’s proposal to transfer treaty and indemnity negotiations to Washington or Europe has been communicated to the other powers by telegraph.)