Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 17529.

Chargé Hibben to the Secretary of State.

American Legation,
Bogota, December 20, 1908.

No. 211.]

Sir: I have the honor to report that a convention of arbitration was signed at this capital, the 6th instant, between France and Colombia, the terms of which are practically the same as those of the convention between the United States and France signed February 10, 1908.

I beg to report, also, that a similar agreement between Great Britain and Colombia is now only awaiting the formal authorization of the British Government to be signed. The British minister resident at this capital tells me that he has cabled for the authorization and expects to be able to sign the treaty in a few days.

I have, etc.,

Paxton Hibben.