Acting Secretary of State Bacon to Minister Wilson.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 119, of the 22d ultimo, transmitting a copy of the note by which you communicated to the International Conference to Control the Traffic in Intoxicants in Africa the President’s cablegram of the 8th of the same month, and a copy of the reply thereto of the president of the conference.

The Department commends the way in which you brought the President’s message before the conference and appreciates its reception by that high body.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.

Note.—To be continued in Foreign Relations, 1907.