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

File No. 711.21/278.

Minister Thomson to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Extract.]

American Legation,
Bogotá, June 17, 1914, 5 p.m.

As a last resort, its opponents have instituted proceedings in the Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of the law by which Congress approved the treaty.* * * I do not consider that any importance whatever should be attached to this surely fruitless attack. * * *

Thomson

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