The Acting Secretary of State to the Italian Chargé .
Washington , March 31, 1906.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d instant, asking this department to use its good offices with the executive department of the State of Ohio to obtain the withdrawal of an order, issued by the food commissioner of that State, prohibiting the sale of paste colored with saffron, the order, in your opinion, not being justified by the provision of law on which it is based nor by the nature of the coloring matter.
I have the honor to say in reply that the department has at once communicated with the governor of Ohio on the subject.
Accept, etc.,