File No. 19654/1.
The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Sherrill.
Washington, July 16, 1909.
Mr. Wilson instructs Mr. Sherrill to inform the Argentine minister for foreign affairs in writing that, when making the cable contract referred to in the legation’s telegram of June 18, the Government of the United States supposes that the Argentine Government had in mind and did not intend any infringement on the provisions of article 3 of its treaty of 1853 with the United States, and that the Government of the Argentine Republic will wish to avoid infringement of American rights under that article in any arrangement to be projected in the future which would tend to exclude possible American competition.