File No. 322.112G64/2.

Minister Hartman to the Secretary of State.

No. 82.]

Sir: By way of supplement to my No. 80, of November 5, 1914, in re application of Mr. Goo Kwai, an American citizen of Chinese birth, who desires to enter Ecuador to visit relatives, I have the honor to submit these additional observations:

On both occasions when I informally presented this case to the Foreign Office, I orally stated that in my view of the matter there is but one question in the case, and that is: Will a person who holds a passport in due form, issued by the Secretary of State of the United States, certifying that the holder thereof is an American citizen, be admitted into the territory of Ecuador or not?

The views announced by our Government in the several cases cited and freely quoted by Mr. Moore in vol. 3, pages 885 to 994 of his International Law Digest conclusively answer that question.

While I was at the Foreign Office on yesterday presenting another matter, the Minister again brought up the Goo Kwai case. It is evident from what he said that the Ecuadorian Government regards this case as a very important one. They fear, if Mr. Goo Kwai is admitted, even to visit relatives, that a flood of the same kind of American citizens from Hawaii will rush into Ecuador.

I have [etc.]

Chas. S. Hartman
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