Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Northcott.

Department of State,
Washington, October 28, 1909.

No. 15.]

Sir: The department has received your No. 12 of the 1st instant inclosing copy and translation of a memorandum which the Colombian minister for foreign affairs requested you to sign with him, proposing that as it would be impossible to obtain the consent of the Colombian Congress to the ratification of the United States-Panama-Colombia treaties, those treaties be dropped and negotiations be opened at Bogota.

The department commends your action in declining to sign the memorandum-protocol.

I am, etc.,

Huntington Wilson.