Ambassador Meyer to the Secretary of State .

No. 679.]

Sir: I beg leave to report that at the sitting of the council of state last Saturday the question of according ordinary political rights to the Jews came up for discussion. Some divergency of opinion was manifested. It was finally decided by a vote of 28 to 16 not to deal separately with the Jewish problem, but to regard it as forming part of the general question of granting equal political rights to all nationalities in the Russian Empire.

I have, etc.,

G. v. L. Meyer.