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. 14867/8.

Chargé Rives to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Vienna, September 30, 1909.

Mr. Rives says he has been requested by the minister for foreign affairs to ask that the United States customs authorities accept certificates of chambers of commerce of Austria-Hungary and extend to Austria-Hungary the same privileges, as to Germany, until enforcement of Payne bill, and requests answer by cable.