Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.512/1297½

The Acting Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, July 22, 1916, 2 p.m.

233. At request American mine owners, ask that appropriate officials in different mining sections be notified of action of Secretary of Treasury in granting extension until September 1 for payment of mining taxes without penalty.

State that unless such course be followed it is feared that complications may arise due to lack of knowledge on the part of local officials.

Polk