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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Lansing: I have just received your letter of December 8th. I have talked with some of the Senators principally interested and I think it will be very wise to withdraw the salmon fisheries treaty and redraft the clause of Article II to which you refer in your letter. There is also, I ought to say, a good deal of feeling in regard to the trial of American citizens; that is, in giving that right under a treaty. Also there is considerable feeling as to the jurisdiction over the territorial waters of a State and I hope that when you take the treaty back to reconsider the clause in Article II you will give consideration also to these other points.
Sincerely yours,