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

Mr. Buck to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Tokyo, March 17, 1902.

(Mr. Buck reports that a proposal to arbitrate has been made by the Japanese Government to the representatives of the powers protesting; that the United States, not having protested, is not included, and inquires whether it would be proper to ask that the United States Government be made a party to the arbitration.)