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

Mr. McCormick to Mr. Hay.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
St. Petersburg , February 11, 1904 .

(Mr. McCormick reports that he personally presented to the minister for foreign affairs the proposal of the United States, as expressed in Department’s telegram of the 10th instant, who stated that he could give no answer thereto before consultation with the Emperor and the military authorities.)