Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1904

Mr. Russell to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Panama, May 17, 1904.

(Mr. Russell reports that the special commission appointed by the National Assembly to receive the amount due Panama will sail for New York to-morrow, and that the Panaman Government urgently requests that the amount due be held until the arrival of the commission.)