Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1905

Personal telegram, to be delivered at the home of Hon. John Hay, 800 Sixteenth street, Washington.

Caracas, February 20, 1905.

Reported that the custodian of the Bermudez Lake has check with which the First Assistant Secretary of State was paid and a letter from him promising the United States will not intervene. The custodian and the President of Venezuela, therefore, feel safe. The facts are known here by the diplomatists and many others.

Bowen.