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. 2489/66.

Minister Squiers to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Extract—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Panama, July 22, 1909.

Mr. Squiers reports that the minister for foreign affairs has particularly requested him to ask the department for a categorical reply to the proposal of Panama for the settlement of the Columbia and Buffalo cases, as Panama desires to close the matter.