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.

The Acting Secretary of State to Chargé Hibben.

Department of State,
Washington, January 21, 1909.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 211, of the 20th ultimo, in which you report the conclusion of an arbitration treaty between Colombia and France similar to that concluded between the United States and France.

You add that one between Colombia and Great Britain is also projected.

The department is gratified to receive this information of these additional steps toward general affirmation of the principle of equitable arbitration.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.