Office of the Historian

File No. 811.5124/10.]

The Assistant Attorney General to the Secretary of State.

Department of Justice,
Washington, April 30, 1912.

Sir: Referring again to your letter of the 26th of February,1 in connection with the settlement and distribution of the estate of Ane [Page 327] Margrethe Anderson, I beg to enclose for your information copy of a letter dated the 22nd instant from the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, reporting the status of the intervening petition filed by him.

Respectfully,

(For the Attorney General)
Winfred T. Denison,
Assistant, Attorney General.
[Inclosure.]

The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa to the Attorney General.

Office of the United States Attorney,
Storm Lake, Iowa, April 22, 1912.

Sir: Replying to your favor of April 18th1 in regard to the proceedings in the estate of Ane Margrethe Andersen in the District Court of Iowa in and for Mitchell County, I would say that agreeable to your instructions,. I have filed a petition of intervention, to which the Treasurer of Iowa has filed a demurrer, claiming that the United States has no right to intervene and that the treaty in question does not apply to a case where a subject of the United States dies and leaves property to a subject of Denmark and that the tax imposed by the State is on the succession to the property and not upon its removal.

I expect to submit the matter to said court during the term which convenes April 29th and will report to you promptly what action is taken in the matter.

Yours very truly,

F. F. Faville,
U. S. Attorney.
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