Ambassador Wright to the Secretary of State.
Tokyo, November 23, 1906.
Sir: I have the honor to confirm, as inclosed herewith, my telegrama of November 10, 1906, to the department, concerning the refusal of the Japanese Government to issue an exequatur to Mr. Rams-den, Cuban vice-consul-general at Yokohama, and the department’s telegram of November 12, 1906,a stating the view of the Government of the United States as regards the validity of commissions given consuls by Mr. Palma prior to September 29, 1906, and instructing me to express the hope of my Government that a consul who had been lawfully commissioned by the President of Cuba might be recognized by the Japanese Government.
In accordance with this instruction, on November 17 I called at the foreign office. The Viscount Hayashi, minister for foreign affairs, was unwell, but I gave to Vice-Minister Chinda the substance of the department’s telegram and left a paraphrase of it with him. He stated that his Government had hesitated to recognize Mr. Rams-den pending the receipt of some definite statement from our Government, but, this difficulty having been now obviated, the Japanese Government would act on the matter promptly. On November 22, in an interview with the Viscount Hayashi, I drew his attention to the matter, and he replied that in view of the telegram above referred to, the Japanese Government would issue the exequatur as requested.
I have, etc.,