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 Moncheur.

Department of State,
Washington , December 21, 1906 .

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 17th instant, by which you advise the department that you did not mean to imply, in your note of October 28 last on the subject, that the United States had finally adhered to the draft conventions adopted by the international maritime conference, but that you had inferred from the statement in the department’s note of August 2 last that the United States did not deem a third meeting of the conference necessary, that this Government had accepted the said drafts in principle, subject to the attitude of the other powers concerned.

In reply I beg to say that I have had the honor to communicate your note to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

Accept, etc.,

Elihu Root.