File No. 4454.
Minister Jackson to the Secretary of State.
Athens, January 21, 1907.
Sir: I have the honor to report that the Bulgarian Sobranje will reconvene to-morrow, the session having been prolonged at the request of the Government until February 9 in order to enable it to present all the bills which it has prepared.
Just before adjourning for the holidays, on January 2, the Sobranje authorized the Government to put in force on the l/14th instant the new commercial agreement with the Ottoman Empire, provided that the same should be signed by the date in question, or to denounce the existing arrangement in the event of the new one not being concluded. This action seemed to have had the desired result of expediting the negotiations at Constantinople, which have been carried on for many months, and just before the end of the (Orthodox) year the arrangement was signed and a copy of it sent to Sofia. This arrangement went into effect on the 14th instant, but I have as yet seen no copy of it.
I have, etc.,