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

File No. 819.55/10.

The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Panama, June 28, 1913.

Department’s June 26. In an interview yesterday the Minister for Foreign Affairs stated that in view of the Legation’s good offices the enforcement of the regulations will be suspended, giving time for further consideration and summoning of a special session of the National Assembly in August, which will probably reduce by one-half the tax of $250 on Chinese entering the country since 1904. Exception to the above will be the immediate enforcement of census and registration of Chinese.

Wicker.