Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
January 16, 1906.

No. 89.]

Sir: Referring to your No. 113, of October 4 last,^b inclosing a copy of a revised translation of the note addressed to the Prince of Ch’ing by the representatives of the powers, by which they accept the Chinese Government’s proposals for the settlement of the indemnity due under the final protocol of September 7, 1901, I have to inform you that a copy of your dispatch was sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for his information.

A copy of a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury in reply, stating the Treasury Department’s understanding of the situation, is herewith inclosed.

I am, etc.,

E. Root.

1. Printed in Foreign Relations for 1905, p. 156.