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 II

The Secretary of State to Chargé Wilson .

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , March 8, 1906 .

(Mr. Boot directs the embassy to inquire if Japanese Government would acquiesce in the American representative at Seoul being styled agent and consul-general, thus following a usual precedent in the case of protected countries and facilitating business relations with the Japanese resident.)