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. 5747/6–7.

The Secretary of State to Minister Squiers.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 8, 1908.

(Mr. Root, referring to dispatch of February 22 last, says it is believed it would facilitate matters if the Panaman Government would authorize Minister Arango to take up with the department the question of selecting an umpire. Instructs Mr. Squiers to interview the minister for foreign affairs and ascertain his views on this point.)