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

Minister Bowen to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Caracas, February 3, 1905.

(Mr. Bowen states that the President asks for a general treaty of arbitration for settling questions that may become diplomatic in accordance with the rule of international law. Asks if the Department wishes him to decline foregoing request or to inform the Venezuelan Government that the Government of the United States could not agree to submit to arbitration whether or not pending questions are diplomatic.)