Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 819.77/139.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 21, 1913.

Your January 19. The Secretary of War has been requested to issue appropriate instructions for the creation of a commission to examine the railway contract. You are hereby directed to act as chairman of this commission to take action similar to that outlined in Department’s No. 42 of April 8, 1912.²

Knox.

2. For. Rel. 1912, pp. 1200–1201.