Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Hay to Sir M. H. Herbert.

Department of State,
Washington, March 5, 1903.

Dear Excellency: I have the honor to inform you that the President has appointed the Hon. Elihu Root, the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Hon. George Turner, of Washington, as the American members of the tribunal created by the convention between the United States and Great Britain, which was signed on the 24th of January, 1903.

I have the honor to be, with assurance of the highest consideration, your excellency’s obedient servant,

John Hay.