Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1902

Mr. Hill to Mr. Bowen.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase]

Department of State,
Washington, April 22, 1902.

(Mr Hill states that it is represented that the Venezuelan consul at Port of Spain, who refuses to clear the New York and Bermudez Company’s vessel for Caño Colorado with food supplies for employees, declares that if the vessel proceeds with papers signed by the United States consul he will send a gunboat to seize her as a pirate.

Mr. Bowen is directed to ascertain and report to the Department whether the Venezuelan Government authorized its consul to make such a statement.)