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. 1518/226–229.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Rockhill.

Department of State,
Washington, January 21, 1909.

Sir: The department acknowledges the receipt of your No. 1054, of the fourth ultimo, reporting concerning the ceremonies on the second ultimo, in connection with the enthronement of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China.

The department has read with interest your despatch and the imperial proclamation and edict in that connection, and is glad to learn that the new Government, through the issuance of an imperial edict, has early expressed the determination to carry out the constitutional program laid down in August last by Her Imperial Highness the late Empress Dowager of China.

I am, etc.,

Robert Bacon.