Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.011/14

The Secretary of State to Mr. Parker, representing American interests

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, January 24, 1917.

629. Department informed Constitutional Convention considering recently proposed articles prohibiting any person holding more than two hundred acres of land, annulling all purchases of land since 1857, restoring tribal lands now held by private individuals or companies, and providing for nationalization of oil lands.

Telegraph whether articles containing these provisions, or any of them, are before convention.

Lansing