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

Mr. Hay to Mr. Squiers .

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , June 13, 1902 .

(Mr. Hay states that the Department has been advised that a Ward Line steamer is detained at Habana with Chinese, and instructs Mr. Squiers to suggest to Cuban Government that it would be reasonable not to consider exclusion provision enforceable against vessels arriving upon voyages begun before promulgation of the law excluding Chinese from Cuba.)