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. 5747/19–21.

The Secretary of State to Minister Squiers.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, May 21, 1908.

(Mr. Root instructs Mr. Squiers to give formal notification to the Panaman Government that Mr. Edward C. Bumpus, of Massachusetts, and Hon. Edwin Denby, of Michigan, have been appointed as United States commissioners plenipotentiary on the tribunal for the assessment of land under Article VI of the treaty of November 18, 1903, between the United States and Panama.)