Acting Secretary of State Bacon to the Belgian Minister.
Washington, August 22, 1906.
Sir: Referring to your note of the 6th instant, in which you requested the good offices of the department in securing the admission to this country of Louis Wythouck, a Belgian subject, who lived at 712 Bodine street, Philadelphia, for eight years, and was refused admission to the United States, where his family reside, after a business trip to Belgium, I have the honor to say that I am advised by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor that Wythouck was excluded by the board of special inquiry on the ground that he was likely to become a public charge.
No appeal having been taken from the decision of the board, the Department of Commerce and Labor is not in a position to review its findings; but there is nothing to prevent Mr. Wythouck’s return to a port of the United States and the renewal of his application for admission, subject to appeal to the Department of Commerce and Labor in case he should be excluded again.
Accept, etc.,