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

The Secretary of State to Minister Bowen.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 24, 1905.

Referring to your dispatch of the 20th, the Department is of the opinion that unless able to confirm them you should deny such defamatory reports concerning superior officer, instead of seeming to give them weight by cabling. Your use of the word “facts” seems unwarranted by any evidence before the Department.

Hay.