Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 774/562.

The Secretary of State to Bishop Brent.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 1, 1909.

Mr. Bacon instructs him to convey to the commissioners assembled the good wishes of President Roosevelt and his conviction that the efforts of the commission toward the general suppression of the opium evil throughout the world will be of the greatest importance. Mr. Bacon adds that the department is pleased to know that he has been unanimously elected chairman of the opium commission, and that the conference has opened auspiciously.