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

Mr. Bowen to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, January 7, 1903.

(Mr. Bowen reports that he has just received the following from the President of Venezuela:

Mr. Minister: The Venezuelan Government accepts the conditions of Great Britain and Germany; requests you to go immediately to Washington for the purpose of conferring there with the diplomatic representatives of Great Britain and Germany, and with the diplomatic representatives of the other nations that have claims against Venezuela, and to arrange either an immediate settlement of said claims or the preliminaries for submitting them to arbitration.

Cipriano Castro,
Constitutional President.

Mr. Bowen requests that if, as he understands, Great Britain and Germany want to know what guaranty they will have, Mr. Hay will inform them that it will be the custom-houses; consequently, Mr. Bowen begs that the blockade be raised at once.)