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

File No. 312.11/7645

The Secretary of State to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington , May 1, 1916 .

Your telegram April 30. I have requested Secretary of Commerce to instruct collector at San Francisco not to penalize your Company in case steamship Newport takes aboard more passengers than she has been authorized to carry.

Robert Lansing