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. 15778/86A.

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Squiers.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 24, 1909.

Mr. Adee refers to legation’s telegram of July 22 and instructs Mr. Squiers to insist upon a settlement of the case of the Columbia in accordance with previous instructions, and says the department is unable to submit Buffalo case to a mixed commission as proposed by Panama. Mr. Adee adds that the department’s position has been set forth in repeated instructions.