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. 4832/76.

Special Commissioner Buchanan to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Willemstadt, December 31, 1908.

Mr. Buchanan says that, accompanied by the Brazilian minister, he called upon the Venezuelan minister for foreign affairs, to whom he presented a copy of his commission, and also delivered to him the communication addressed to him by Secretary Root. Mr. Buchanan adds that the conferences were expected to begin on the following day.