Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 312.41/96.

The Secretary of State to Special Agent Carothers.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, February 20, 1914.

Your February 20. Obtain without fail and forward to the Department at your earliest convenience copy of sentence under which Benton is said to have been executed. If not a violation of confidence you may give to the press copy of court proceedings. Collaborate with American Consul and telegraph after mass meeting statement embracing all reliable information obtainable.

Bryan

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