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

Minister Rockhill to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Abstract—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Peking , May 10, 1906 .

(Mr. Rockhill has seen T’ang Shao Yi. The latter says that the customs revenue is already hypothecated and will not be touched; treaties and pledges will be observed; the inspector-general will be an Englishman, but China will have a right to control him, he being a servant of that country.)