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

Mr. Adee to Mr. Powell.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 10, 1902.

(Mr. Adee states that the United States Government does not recognize closure by mere decree of ports in the possession of insurgents; that only an effective blockade to enforce such decree could be respected; that this doctrine is fully stated in a note to the Colombian minister to the United States, dated April 24, 1885, Foreign Relations, 1885, page 254.)