Mr. Hay to Mr. Hale.
Washington , October 29, 1904 .
Sir: I inclose a copy of a letter from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in regard to the case of Mrs. Maria Horniak, the wife of a citizen of the United States, who was compelled by an official of the Hungarian Government to forfeit her prepaid passage ticket to this country and to purchase another ticket via the Cunard Line from Fiume, Hungary.a
You will take this case up in connection with the several complaints recently brought to the attention of the Department by the International Maritime Company, concerning which an instruction was sent on the 19th instant. * * *
I am, etc.,
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