438.00/229: Telegram
The High Commissioner in Haiti ( Russell ) to the Secretary of State
Port au
Prince
,
April 3, 1923—1 p.m.
[Received 2:43 p.m.]
[Received 2:43 p.m.]
47. Department is informed that the opinion of Judge Strong, legal adviser, in which I concur, is that jurisdiction of Claims Commission [Page 403] is limited to pecuniary claims pending on the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty, May 3, 1916.24
Russell