Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 445.
Mr. Pendleton to Mr. Bayard.

Legation of the United States,
Berlin, February 20, 1888. (Received March 8.)

No. 583.]

Sir: Referring to my dispatch No. 574, of the 30th ultimo, with which I inclosed a bill amending the “socialist law,” then pending before the Reichstag, I have now the honor to inform you that the validity of the original law has been prolonged for a period of two years, to expire September 30, 1890, the Reichstag declining to adopt any of the amendments proposed by the Government.

I have, etc.,

Geo. H. Pendleton.