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The Secretary of State to Minister Russell.

Department of State,
Washington , November 28, 1905 .
No. 22.]

Sir: I have to acknowldege the receipt of your No. 28, of the 12th instant, reporting the arrival of Mr. Diaz Granados, confidential agent of Colombia, who is to endeavor to reestablish diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Colombia, and who brings with him the draft of a protocol to establish the frontier between the two countries.

If Mr. Diaz Granados’s powers include the adjustment of fluvial navigation questions, besides the settlement of the boundary, the occasion would appear, as you suggest, to be propitious for discreet compliance with the Department’s instructions of August 4, 1905.

I am, etc.,

Elihu Root.