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.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 3, 1905.

(Mr. Hay states that the suggestion that the United States enter into a treaty of arbitration to determine what questions may become diplomatic can not be taken seriously. Mr. Bowen will so inform the Venezuelan Government.)