Minister Wilson to the Secretary of State.

No. 34.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the Department’s cablegram of October 27, 1905.

In compliance with the instructions therein contained, I to-day visited the ministry for foreign affairs and attached my signature to the protocol of the convention. This protocol does not differ in any material respect from that signed by Mr. Townsend. All of the concurring representatives have signed the convention.

I have, etc.,

Henry Lane Wilson.