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. 5747/24–27.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Squiers.

Department of State,
Washington, June 26, 1908.

No. 117.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your unnumbered dispatch of the 1st instant, and in reply I have to say that the department agrees with the views as to the scope of Article VI of the treaty of 1903 between the United States and Panama expressed in the note of Minister Arias to you as defined and set forth in greater detail by Mr. Rogers, general counsel of the Isthmian Canal Commission, in his note to you of May 28 last.

I am, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.